Junk DNA: Seriously, People. I'm Here for a Reason

Apr 24, 2007

More than 10,000 stretches of what appear to be fragments of transposons throughout the human genome may play a crucial role in embryonic development, according to Stanford's Gill Bejerano and his colleagues. This article in Scientific American includes more details.

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