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Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.bsky.social |
Please consider subscribing to my email newsletter! In the latest issue, I write about giant genomes and how I gave my blood to witness the power of junk DNA. 🧪buttondown.email/carlzimmer/archive/fridays-elk-life-keeps-throwing-more-junk-at-us/
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Toby Baril
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Definitely not all junk! This mindset has shifted big time in the scientific community!
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Brian Dilkes
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It’s only junk to you. Those brilliant parasitic DNA elements are so fabulously fit that they grow in number faster than their hosts…
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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's
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And to think that we owe placentas to some long, long, long ago infection of a pre-mammal by a retrovirus which is how it's believed mammals got the gene to make the protein that allows cells to fuse like they do in the placenta.
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