Researchers say findings suggest it may be possible to stop cancer growth using approaches such as restraining TE activity in ...

You may have heard of the fantastic-sounding "dark side of the genome." This poorly studied fraction of DNA, known as ...

Mobile DNA elements, such as Insertion Sequence (IS) elements, transposons, integrative elements (e.g. integrative islands), ...

For decades, scientists dismissed transposable elements, also known as transposons or “jumping genes”, as useless “junk DNA”. But are they really? The early speculations of both McClintock ...

Scientists have long been curious about a mysterious part of our DNA called heterochromatin, often called the “dark side of ...

Where the self-chains are not available, you can manually search for additional occurrences of a few elements by obtaining the raw sequence via the “DNA” link at the top of the Genome Browser ...

More than half of the human genome comprises remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are widespread across life forms. Once thought to be "junk" DNA, researchers from ...

“They’re always collecting these mobile DNA pieces, and they’re making new functions all the time—everything in antibiotic resistance is really about mobile genetic elements and almost ...

Current processing techniques for harvesting DNA from osseous elements are destructive, and success rates vary widely. When skeletal elements are homogenized into a fine powder, endogenous DNA may be ...

but also bring elements of it into the present, with the exciting prospect of de-extinction. Evolutionary molecular biologist Beth Shapiro is a leading expert in ancient DNA, having been first to ...

They're always collecting these mobile DNA pieces, and they're making new functions all the time—everything in antibiotic resistance is really about mobile genetic elements and almost always ...