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, ...

Swiss start-up Haya Therapeutics has formed a partnership with Eli Lilly – worth up to $1 billion – to look for new therapies for obesity in non-coding DNA. The biotech focuses on trawling the ...

Exons are coding sections of an RNA transcript, or the DNA encoding it, that are translated into protein. Exons can be separated by intervening sections of DNA that do not code for proteins ...

The enzyme RNA polymerase attaches to the DNA in a non-coding region just before the gene. RNA polymerase moves along the DNA strand. Free RNA nucleotides form hydrogen bonds with the exposed DNA ...

While these proteins bind at regions on the genome that are "open," they temporarily "close off" the immediate region of DNA that they bind to, leaving a "footprint" in experimental results that ...

The findings were published online by the American Journal of Human Genetics in a paper titled "Characterization of non-coding variants ... the immediate region of DNA that they bind to, leaving ...