19 Jun 2007

Exploring the Dark Matter of the Genome

Not so prolonged ago, the difficult-to-set, hugely non-stop, gene-unproductive DNA found in regions of chromosomes known as heterochromatin was called "junk." Like tenebrous matter in the universe, the true identity of heterochromatin was unexplored. Now members of the Drosophila Heterochromatin Genome Project (DHGP), headed by Gary Karpen of the conditioned by trust in of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, are approaching a accomplish assembly, mapping, and functional analysis of those portions (other than stark repeats) of the heterochromatic DNA of Drosophila melanogaster, the fruit fly. The results authenticate that heterochromatin is there from mere junk........

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