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Nature 444, 130-131 (9 November 2006) | doi:10.1038/444130a; Published online 8 November 2006
It's the junk that makes us human
Erika Check
Anyone who has ever put together self-assembly furniture knows that having the right parts is important, but what you do with them can make or break the project. The same seems to be true of the vast amounts of DNA in an organism's genome that used to be labelled as junk.
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