Our complex genetic information can be sliced in many ways, but one common divisor is between coding and non-coding DNA. As their name suggests, only coding regions are later transcribed into RNA and ...

An international research team, led by Jian-Feng Mao, has developed PlantLncBoost, a new computational tool that helps to ...

Non-coding DNA variants contribute to acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) chemotherapy resistance. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have identified specific DNA variants in the non ...

Much of the "junk" DNA in Drosophila shows signs of either negative or positive selection, according to a study in this week's Nature. An analysis by Peter Andolfatto of the University of California, ...

Most of these risk variants, however, are found within non-coding regions—parts of DNA that do not encode for proteins—whose function in disease development has been poorly understood.

The mechanism reveals that damages to non-coding DNA, which are often hidden, accumulate more in slowly proliferating tissues ...

Only 2% of human DNA contains the 'code' to produce proteins, key building blocks of life. The remaining 98% is 'non-coding' and was once thought to be unnecessary 'junk' DNA, but there is ...

Sorting through non-coding DNA to find the root of chemotherapy resistance "The non-coding 98% of the genome contains instructions," said co-first author Jackson Mobley, Ph.D., St. Jude Department ...