“Target Finder” for Non-Coding DNA
May 10, 2016 | Terry Sharrer
Geneticists haven’t called non-coding DNA “junk” for a long time, but it still passes through medical reporting like a virus. This piece, however, ought to be the anti-viral, as it describes how non-coding DNA, often located at far distances from coding gene sequences, acts as enhancers for gene expression. They can do this by generating not protein but gene regulating RNAs. Researchers at the Gladstone Institute and the University of California at San Francisco have devised a computational method called “Target Finder” for locating non-coding/signal transmission sequences in the looping chromatin which could be important drug targets. MORE
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