Full title: Junk DNA : a journey through the dark matter of the genome / Nessa Carey.

Author/creator: Carey, Nessa.

Call Numbers: G 2016/2349

Record Identifier: 74VKVP0jA083

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: viii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., , , , An introduction to genomic dark matter -- Why dark matter matters -- When dark matter turns very dark indeed -- Where did all the genes go? -- Outstaying an invitation -- Everything shrinks when we get old -- Two is the perfect number -- Painting with junk -- Playing the long game -- Adding colour to the dark matter -- Why parents love junk -- Junk with a mission -- Switching it on, turning it up -- No man's land -- Project ENCODE : Big Science comes to junk DNA -- Headless queens, strange cats and portly mice -- Lost in untranslation -- Why LEGO is better than Airfix -- Mini can be mighty -- The drugs do work (sometimes) -- Some light in the darkness -- Appendix. Human diseases in which junk DNA has been implicated.

Publishers: New York Columbia University Press, [2015]

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-328) and index.

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DDC: 572.86

MMS ID: 991023996212902626