Re: [DIYbio] "Scientists discover double meaning in genetic code" - an interesting article

We have known that some transcription factors can bind within exons
for quite a while. Apparently these binding sites are now called
"duons." The part of this which is new is this group, part of the
ENCODE consortium, mapped out where a lot of those duons are located.
And the interesting part is how many there are and how they have
affected the evolution of proteins.

It's a pretty cool study and definitely one of the more interesting
things (IMO) to come out of ENCODE, but Univ of Washington's PR
department is way over-hyping this. Claiming that they "discovered a
second code hiding within DNA" is a bit disingenuous. That honor goes
to Jacob and Monod in the 1960s.

-cory

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