Part of the answer to how and why humans differ from other primates may lie in the repetitive stretches of the genome that were once considered "junk." A new study finds that when a particular type of ...

Large genome-mapping consortia and thousands of genome-wide association studies have identified non-protein-coding elements in the genome as having a central role in various biological processes.

For years, researchers thought that most of DNA was passive "junk" and knew little about it. However, new findings are peeling back the odd and baffling world of transposons. Now, researchers have ...

Myc is a highly unstable transcription factor that is destroyed by ubiquitin (Ub)-mediated proteolysis. We have previously identified an amino-terminal ‘degron’ within Myc that signals its destruction ...