Much of the "junk" DNA in Drosophila shows signs of either negative or positive selection, according to a study in this week's Nature. An analysis by Peter Andolfatto of the University of California, ...

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more ...

“The functional diversity [of noncoding RNAs] is tremendous and impressive.” Research into how RNAs function in the brain has progressed more slowly than the study of protein function, however. For ...

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Swiss start-up Haya Therapeutics has formed a partnership with Eli Lilly – worth up to $1 billion – to look for new therapies for obesity in non-coding DNA. The biotech focuses on trawling the ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have mapped the genome of the Iberian ribbed newt and revealed how the composition and ...

The new study analyzed sperm cells from 58 individuals, looking at two types of epigenetic markers: DNA methylation and small ...

The involvement of noncoding mRNAs in many regulatory processes ... that an "RNA world" may have preceded the evolution of DNA and proteins (Gilbert, 1986). Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs ...

First, both coding and noncoding regions of DNA are transcribed into mRNA. Some regions are removed (introns) during initial mRNA processing. The remaining exons are then spliced together ...