Generic skills like those taught at business schools were thought to be useless.
For years it was thought to be useless; so churned up that there was little chance of complete bones being preserved.
A16 SCIENCE/HEALTH Chemotherapy for Lung Cancer For the first time in decades, doctors have begun making major changes in the treatment of lung cancer, based on research proving that chemotherapy can significantly lengthen life in many patients in whom it was once thought to be useless.
Protein-coding genes make up just 1.5% of our genome, the rest includes a lot of what is thought to be useless junk with no discernible function.
The answer, according to a new study, may lie in "junk DNA," large chunks of an animal's genome that were once thought to be useless.
Second, having no known role does not necessarily imply having no impact: day after day, portions of the genome that were previously thought to be useless have been shown to have important regulatory or structural roles.
