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Cancer as rubbish: donation of tumor tissue for research.

Tissue banking (or biobanking), thought by many to be an essential form of medical research, has raised a number of ethical issues that highlight a need to understand the beliefs and values of tissue donors, including the motivations underlying consent or refusal to donate. Data from our qualitative study of the legal, social, and ethical issues surrounding tumor banking in New South Wales, Aus...

Rubbish DNA: The functionless fraction of the human genome

Because genomes are products of natural processes rather than " intelligent design, " all genomes contain functional and nonfunctional parts. The fraction of the genome that has no biological function is called " rubbish DNA. " Rubbish DNA consists of " junk DNA, " i.e., the fraction of the genome on which selection does not operate, and " garbage DNA, " i.e., sequences that lower the fitness o...

The Preparation of Manure with Night-Soil and Street Rubbish

sources of organic manure which can meet the qualitative and the quantitative requirements ol agriculture. The only thing is that they are abhorrent to handle in their original form. In these days of acute food shortage when the slogan is 1 grow more food these articles have to be converted into manure that can be easily handled by the agriculturist and handed over to him in the shortest possib...

Satellite DNA in Plants: More than Just Rubbish.

For decades, satellite DNAs have been the hidden part of genomes. Initially considered as junk DNA, there is currently an increasing appreciation of the functional significance of satellite DNA repeats and of their sequences. Satellite DNA families accumulate in the heterochromatin in different parts of the eukaryotic chromosomes, mainly in pericentromeric and subtelomeric regions, but they als...

Disposal of Night-Soil and Rubbish by Compost System