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Science 13 June 2003:
Vol. 300. no. 5626, pp. 1646 - 1649
DOI: 10.1126/science.300.5626.1646
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Spinning Junk Into Gold

Ingrid Wickelgren

Scientists are finding surprising uses for so-called junk DNA, stretches of DNA with no obvious function that are scattered among genes. Some stretches encode enzymes that ferry genes into precise locations; other "junk" seamlessly edits proteins.

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