The Treasure Hunt Continues: More Uses for Non-Coding DNA

As we have noted many times, geneticists put the brakes on research when they concluded that much of the human genome was junk from our evolutionary past. The surge in discoveries of function in the junk has falsified their pessimism. Now, the smart money is on new and exciting purposes for that non-coding DNA.

Heterochromatin

That's the spirit shown by two biologists at Texas A&M University (pictured above) who are trying to unlock the non-coding half of the human genome, looking for understa...