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'Junk DNA' Darwinism Intelligent Design

How “useless junk” DNA switches on a target gene

From ScienceDaily: Researchers have captured video showing how pieces of DNA once thought to be useless can act as on-off switches for genes. These pieces of DNA are part of over 90 percent of the genetic material that are not genes. Researchers now know that this “junk DNA” contains most of the information that can Read More…

Posted on July 26, 2018 Author News Comment(1)
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ENCODE: The many uses of “junk DNA”

Two days ago, a big meeting in Maryland of researchers into non-coding DNA (alleged “junk DNA” ) wrapped up, and people have been writing to us about the various, so-far unofficially publicized findings that friends have told them about. One researcher whose specialty is orphan genes observed that although we have similar genes to mice, Read More…

Posted on July 3, 2015 Author News Comments(3)

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