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Thursday 14 June 2007

Human instruction book not so simple

Researchers believe even useless-looking DNA may carry information


An in-depth examination of the human DNA map has turned basic biology concepts upside-down and may even rewrite the book on evolution and some causes of disease, researchers said Wednesday. They found there was far more to genetics than the genes themselves and determined there was no such thing as "junk DNA" but that some of the most useless-looking stretches of DNA may carry important information. (msnbc)