ENCODE has identified 400 regions of ‘junk’ or non-coding DNA that may have a bearing on disease states, and the implications for pharma and patients are huge The announcement in September that hefty ...

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First findings of the Encyclopaedia of DNA Elements (Encode project), which takes a close-up look at the human genome, point to a more complex picture and to the regulatory function of "junk" DNA.

Imagine the human genome as a string stretching out for the length of a football field, with all the genes that encode proteins clustered at the end near your feet. Take two big steps forward; all the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A series of new papers has just been published, confirming that most of our DNA has no known function.

The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) consortium published a set of papers in Nature and Genome Research that sum the work of more than four years of effort dedicated to understanding the ...