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8 – Dark Matter of the Genome (part 1)
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:23:55
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Synopsis
Could “genome” be a misnomer? The name implies that our genetic information is mainly genes, yet when the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, it revealed that genes comprise a tiny minority. About 98 percent of the genome is something else — a kind of genomic dark matter. We chat with an astrophysicist-turned-genome-biologist, Assistant Professor Molly Hammell, about how she ended up studying a type of genomic dark matter called transposons.