Introns: The gaps in our genes
What are introns and why are our genes full of them? This film explores some of the proposed explanations for introns being so common in DNA, including a new idea based on two papers just published in Nature.
You can read the original research papers here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
16th January 2019