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UC Santa Cruz study discovers cellular activity that hints recycling is in our DNA - EurekAlert


Introns are perhaps one of our genome’s biggest mysteries. They are DNA sequences that interrupt the sensible protein-coding information in your genes, and need to be "spliced out.”

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