The first pseudogene was discovered in 1977 and, until very recently, pseudogenes were thought to be irrelevant byproducts of evolution scattered throughout the genome. Pseudogenes are introduced into ...

Liang's study is novel in that understanding of pseudogenes relies on analyzing large numbers of patient samples. Previous studies have been limited by the size of the patient sample groups.

Since pseudogenes are more or less identical to their ancestral genes, the authors knew they would be the perfect "combatants" because they would both recognize and compete for the same group of ...

Pseudogenes: dysfunctional, unloved and seemingly of little use, these poor-cousin relatives of genes have lost their protein-coding abilities. They contain material not essential for an organism ...

The central dogma of molecular biology, as proposed in 1970 by Francis Crick and James Watson, holds that genetic information is transferred from DNA to functional proteins by way of messenger RNA ...

The study by researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center raises the possibility of using the information provided by these dysfunctional genes. Alas, the thankless pseudogene. Dysfunctional, unloved ...