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 ...

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 ...

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

What exactly are these “jumping genes,” and why are they so important? As previously mentioned, McClintock is best known for her discovery of transposable elements through experimentation with ...

It may sound strange but plants can remember stress. Scientists are still learning about how plants do this without a brain.

RNA-based medicines are one of the most promising ways to fight human disease, as demonstrated by the recent successes of RNA vaccines and double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) therapies. But while health care ...

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.

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.

The team found that reproductive stem cells use a novel adaptive response to quickly tame the invading jumping gene elements by activating the so-called DNA damage checkpoint. That is a pause in ...