A schematic describing what Inocles do and where they’re found. It shows the kinds of roles its genes might have, and how those jobs could be connected to things happening in the human body.

Extrachromosomal DNAs (ecDNAs) are circular DNA structures located in the nuclei of cells outside chromosomes. They were originally discovered in chromosome spreads of cells obtained from embryonal ...

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Researchers including those at the University of Tokyo have made a surprising discovery hiding in people's mouths: Inocles, giant DNA elements that had previously escaped detection. These appear to ...