This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Increasing perimeters — Some people are big on holidays – bigger than they were before those holidays. A team at the University of Castilla-La Mancha and the University of Valladolid, Spain, sized up some first-year undergraduate nursing students, […]
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mudDNA — new jargon for old junk
A reporter asked me if there’s a single good name for all the kinds of DNA that are still not well understood — the grab bag of stuff that some people describe as “junk DNA”. Here’s what I suggested. Maybe it’s useful. Maybe it’s not. Name: “murkily understood DNA” Abbreviation: mudDNA Pronunciation: “mud DNA” or […]
