Parts of genome without a known function may play a key role in the birth of new proteins
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - 11:00
in Biology & Nature
Researchers in Biomedical Informatics at IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) and at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) have recently published a study in eLife showing that RNA called non-coding (IncRNA) plays an important role in the evolution of new proteins, some of which could have important cell functions yet to be discovered.