An international team of scientists a family genome sequences known as “transposable elements,” and found they play a vital role in gene expression.

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study published in Cell Genomics, researchers at Lund University in Sweden show ...

The non-coding genome, once dismissed as "junk DNA", is now recognized as a fundamental regulator of gene expression and a ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

Lund University scientists report that repetitive DNA once dismissed as “junk” plays an active role in human brain ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as “junk,” thought to serve no real purpose. In a new study in Cell ...

Researchers have now discovered that HAR123, a regulatory gene sequence, is an important factor in human brain development.

The non-coding genome, once dismissed as "junk DNA", is now recognized as a fundamental regulator of gene expression and a ...

Scientists are seeking to decipher the role of non-coding DNA in the human genome, helped by a suite of ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

Translocations are chromosomal "cut and paste" errors that drive many lymphomas, a type of blood cancer and the sixth most ...