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Genetics: The production line

If more than 90% of the genome is 'junk' then why do cells make so much RNA from it? Anna Petherick goes in search of some answers.

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Petherick, A. Genetics: The production line. Nature 454, 1042–1045 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/4541042a

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