Scientists found that DNA once dismissed as “junk” helps chromosomes find their partners
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August 27, 2026
For years, the dense loops of repetitive DNA clustered near the middle of chromosomes were treated as evolutionary clutter. According to the new study published in Nature, titled ‘Meiotic pairing through barcode-like satellite DNA repeats‘,…