Claudiu I. Bandea

On the concept of biological function, junk DNA and the gospels of ENCODE and Graur et al.

The paper critiques Graur et al.'s dismissal of ENCODE's claims about genome functionality and proposes a hypothesis that junk DNA acts as a defense mechanism against insertional mutagenesis.

Aβ, tau, α-synuclein, huntingtin, TDP-43, PrP and AA are members of the innate immune system: a unifying hypothesis on the etiology of AD, PD, HD, ALS, CJD and RSA as innate immunity disorders

The paper proposes that Aβ, tau, α-synuclein, huntingtin, TDP-43, PrP, and AA are components of the innate immune system and that neurodegenerative diseases arise from immune-related dysfunction.