“We can identity Neanderthal elements and Denisovan elements” in the DNA of some people alive today, said Tsutaya. The ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Extrachromosomal DNAs (ecDNAs) encode oncogenic driver proteins, regulatory elements, immunomodulators, and genes of yet-unknown oncogenicity (Panel A). They exist as circular pieces of DNA in the ...

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 ...