New genes found that can arise 'from nothing'

PHYSorg
Dec 8, 2023, 11:53 am167 pts
The complexity of living organisms is encoded within their genes, but where do these genes come from? Researchers at the University of Helsinki resolved outstanding questions around the origin of small regulatory genes, and described a mechanism that creates their DNA palindromes. Under suitable circumstances,…

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