Denisovans are an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens.

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 ...

Heterochromatin contains tens of thousands of units of dangerous DNA, known as "transposable elements" (or TEs). TEs remain ...

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 ...

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

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