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2003 FEB 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from Canada, "Instead of being greeted as supporting the growing corpus of immunological theory, recent advances in the bioinformatic analysis of genomes have often surprised the discoverers and failed to attract the attention of immunologists."
"In fact, the view that multicellular immune systems are adaptations of already highly evolved unicellular immune systems that are capable of self/not-self discrimination can assist our comprehension of phenomena, such as 'junk' DNA, genetic polymorphism, and the ubiquity of repetitive elements," stated Donald R. Forsdyke and coauthors at Queens University in Kingston. "For instance, the 'hidden transcriptome,' revealed by run-on transcription of genes or repetitive elements, contains a diverse repertoire of RNA 'immune receptors' with the potential to form ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Researchers discuss implications of emerging genomic data.(Brief...