stackyFACTSFor decades, scientists arrogantly labeled vast stretches of our genome as useless 'junk DNA' simply because it did not code for proteins. Turns out, this dark matter of the genome actually acts as a massive regulatory network, acting as the biological management team that dictates when your active genes do their jobs.
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