There’s more than meets the eye when it comes to ‘junk’ DNA In September 2012, as the final papers from the ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) project rolled out, the mood among many molecular biologists was triumphant. After more than a decade of coordinated experiments across dozens of laboratories, the consortium made a bold […]
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Origin Story
How did life emerge on Earth? (Spoiler alert: We still don’t know) On a cold winter evening in 1952, in a dimly lit lab at the University of Chicago, Stanley Miller, a 22-year-old graduate student, stared at the murky brown sludge in the shake flask in front of him, his stomach sinking. Days of […]