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"In an interesting twist of research, it appears that many genes are controlled by important regulatory elements that lie in regions previously considered "junk" DNA because these sequences did not code for any known proteins. However, scientists now realize that some of these nocoding sequences are also highly conserved across species. Thus the notion that these sequences are junk is being "junked""
-Research Highlights of Lawrence Livermore Labs , April 2005, Science and Tech Review. (AVailable on line at
http://www.llnl.gov/str.