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How a Queensland sea sponge is helping scientists unravel a 700-million-year-old mystery of evolution

  • Written by Emily S Wong, Head of Regulatory Systems, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and Senior research fellow, UNSW
How a Queensland sea sponge is helping scientists unravel a 700-million-year-old mystery of evolutionUniversity of Queensland

Many human traits, such as height and disease susceptibility, depend on genes that are encoded in our DNA. These genes are switched on and off and further fine-tuned by important but hard-to-find regions in the genome.

A particularly important class of these regions are known as enhancers, which boost the likelihood that a...

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