Transposable elements reveal a stem cell specific class of long noncoding RNAs
Sunday, November 25, 2012 - 21:00
in Biology & Nature
Over a decade after sequencing the human genome, it has now become clear that the genome is not mostly ‘junk’ as previously thought. In fact, the ENCODE project consortium of dozens of labs and petabytes of data have determined that these ‘noncoding’ regions house everything from disease trait loci to important regulatory signals, all the way through to new types of RNA-based genes.