A contaminating human DNA sequence present in a fish assembly ... Chain and nets are also valuable for spotting unflagged protein coding and noncoding pseudogenes, including ribosomal ones.

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 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 ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking study has identified how previously mysterious mutations in non-coding DNA contribute to kidney disease, ...

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 ...

In a review article, researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that long noncoding RNAs—molecules once dismissed as ...

Researchers here looked at two epigenetic markers: DNA methylation and small noncoding RNA. The findings showed a "different ...

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more resilient to significant structural changes than was previously thought.

Fathers exposed to high stress in childhood had different epigenetic markers that may affect their offspring, though more ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene "silencer" that resides in junk DNA is directly sparing people from a devastating ...