Special Episode: Genetic Testing
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The So-Called Non-Coding DNA?
I want to do an episode on probably fairly soon is the so-called junk DNA, or I guess non-coding DNA. There's definitely a lot of other stuff in there, like remnants of old viruses, for example, that have been inserted into the genome. Some percentage of its probably structural, like keeping it in the right shape. And as well as epigenetics and control of gene expression, something that is still not very well understood but there's a lot of work into that recently.
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