9 – Dark Matter of the Genome (part 2)

Base Pairs by Base Pairs – a Cold Spring Harbor Lab podcast

Apr 14, 201700:25:17Science & Medicine

One scientist’s junk is apparently everyone’s treasure! They just haven’t realized it yet. . . In this episode of Base Pairs, we question the mythos that is “junk DNA” and explore how and why scientists are becoming enth...

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