![]() ![]() “It didn’t come with an instruction manual to figure out how the DNA actually works.” While scientists already knew the detailed chemical makeup of the genome, “we didn’t really know how to read it,” she said in an interview. It’s “our first global view of how the genome functions,” sort of a Google Maps that allows both bird’s-eye and close-up views of what’s going on, said Elise Feingold of the genome institute. But the new work shows how that happens on a broad scale. Similarly, they have known that the genome contains regulators that control the activity of genes, so that one set of genes is active in a liver cell and another set in a brain cell, for example. But scientists have long known those genetic blueprints take up only about 2% of the genome, and their understanding of what’s going on in the rest has been murky. Most people know that DNA contains genes, which hold the instructions for life. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]()
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