Science
How a Queensland sea sponge is helping scientists unravel a 700-million-year-old mystery of evolution – UNSW Newsroom
DNA from the humble sea sponge is shedding light on the “dark matter” that makes up much of our genomes.
DNA from the humble sea sponge is shedding light on the “dark matter” that makes up much of our genomes.Many human traits, such as height and disease susceptibility, depend on genes that are encoded in our DNA. These genes are switched on and off and further fine-tuned by important but hard-to-find regions in the genome.
A particularly important class of these regions are known as enhancers, which boost the likelihood that a particular gene will be activated. Trying to find enhancers based on the…
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