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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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For years, scientists thought an ex planation would soon turn up for the vast differences be tween humans and their closest relatives among the animals, such as chimpanzees. The difference must be in the genes, biologists reasoned. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have now concluded that a major part of the answer lies in regions of DNA out side those that are considered genes. This material was called junk DNA only a few years ago be cause it had no discernible function: un like genes it does n’t pro vide code for producing proteins, the myriad molecules that do much of the day-to-day work of keep ing the organism ticking.
