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 ...

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 ...

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

Pig organs are about the same size as humans,’ so some scientists and transplant surgeons see them as candidates to solve the problem of a shortage of organ donors, reports The New York Times.

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.

It utilises mobile genetic elements or “jumping genes”, which cut and paste themselves into genomes and are present in all ...

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 ...

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 ...