Hailed as the biggest breakthrough in genomics in a decade, the project explained how swathes of DNA once thought to have no purpose, actually form a complex “control panel” for our genes.

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In the new project, named Encode, scientists found that 80 per cent of the “junk” region helps dictate how and where proteins are produced.

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In the past two decades, scientists had begun to realise that “junk” areas must have some function, because they appeared to influence our suscept...
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Bigfoot and Yeti DNA Study Gets Serious

"It would be wonderful if one or more turned out to be species we don't know about, maybe primates, maybe even collateral hominids," Sykes told LiveScience. Such hominids would include Neanderthals or Denosivans, a mysterious hominin species that lived in Siberia 40,000 years ago.
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