{"id":5177,"date":"2012-09-05T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5177"},"modified":"2012-09-05T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T20:00:12","slug":"breakthrough-study-overturns-theory-of-junk-dna-in-genome-duh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/breakthrough-study-overturns-theory-of-junk-dna-in-genome-duh\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough study overturns theory of ‘junk DNA’ in genome — duh!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not at all a surprise. The surprise is that any real scientist thought it was junk in the first place — what arrogance.<\/p>\n

Breakthrough study overturns theory of ‘junk DNA’ in genome | Science | The Guardian<\/a> <\/p>\n

Long stretches of DNA previously dismissed as "junk" are in fact crucial to the way our genome works, an international team of scientists said on Wednesday .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Breakthrough study overturns theory of ‘junk DNA’ in genome | Science | The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not at all a surprise. The surprise is that any real scientist thought it was junk in the first place — what arrogance. Breakthrough study overturns theory of ‘junk DNA’ in genome | Science | The Guardian Long stretches of DNA previously dismissed as "junk" are in fact crucial to the way our genome works, … Continue reading Breakthrough study overturns theory of ‘junk DNA’ in genome — duh!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-atheists-pulpit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5178,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions\/5178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}