Transposable elements, or "jumping genes", were first identified by Barbara McClintock more than 50 years ago. Why are transposons so common in eukaryotes, and exactly what do they do? In addition ...

She also noticed something else. Every now and then 'twin sectors' would arise where one part of the kernel or plant (depending on where the affected gene is expressed) showed increased while the ...

But Chiappinelli, then a postdoctoral fellow in Stephen Baylin’s lab at Johns Hopkins University, also saw an upregulation in genes involved in innate immunity ... these elements are mere relics of ...

No one believed Barbara McClintock in 1951 when she first described DNA that "jumped" from site to site within maize chromosomes, altering the expression of genes near the sites of integration. In due ...

The research team also discovered a gene called sdg-1 that helps regulate ‘jumping genes’— DNA sequences that tend to move or copy themselves to different locations on a chromosome. While jumping ...

RNA-based medicines are one of the most promising ways to fight human disease, as demonstrated by the recent successes of RNA ...

Surprisingly, it wasn’t some mutation that knocked out this gene but rather a so-called “jumping gene” known as AluY. Jumping ...

3-D modeling shows that Alu insertions within the TOMM40 gene could make the channel protein it encodes fold into the wrong shape, causing the mitochondria's import machinery to clog and stop working.

The research team also discovered a gene called sdg-1 that helps regulate 'jumping genes' -- DNA sequences that tend to move or copy themselves to different locations on a chromosome. While ...