The map of ‘dark matter’ DNA

(ANSA) – Rome, September 6 – here is the map of ‘dark matter’ of biology: DNA called trash, which for decades had been assigned to this tag in the belief of its uselessness ‘, turns out to be a real Director of the genetic code. The result, published in the journal Nature, is the international consortium to encode (encyclopedia of DNA elements) and assigns a function at least 80% of the entire genome. It also requires to review the definitions of ‘gene’. All rights reserved