In addition, these jumping genes have motifs for binding sites of so-called transcription factors, which are important for the function of enhancers," explains Dr. Malte Simon, one of the first ...

Adverse genetic mutations can cause harm and are due to various circumstances. "Jumping genes" are one cause of mutations, but cells try and combat them with a specialized RNA called piRNA. For ...

Originally believed to be junk DNA, jumping genes are now known to perform critical regulatory functions, but are regularly silenced, meaning they stop moving. This results in a stabilized cell. Yale ...

Admittedly, this doesn’t exactly prove that one jumping gene caused us to lose our tails. Without a time machine to take us back 15 million years (with a DNA sequencing machine in tow), we can ...

T he tale of the peppered moth (Biston betularia) is, quite literally, a textbook story of adaptive evolution.Back in the early 19th century, only one form of these now-iconic moths was known: a light ...

Jumping genes, called transposons, can “copy and paste” themselves and impact the organism. Most organisms have some repeated parts of their DNA, some of which are jumping genes, ...

In 2012, researchers at Harvard Medical School reported that LINE-1 could insert copies of itself into the middle of genes that are commonly mutated in tumors, possibly contributing to cancer ...

Researchers identify possible new antigens by studying jumping genes, which could be used to direct novel immunotherapies. Immunotherapy is an effective approach to fighting tumors with multiple ...

Because jumping genes are shared by humans and octopuses, they may be good candidates for future research on intelligence and how it develops and varies between individuals within a species, ...

Transposable elements (TEs), also known as transposons or ‘jumping genes’, are sequences of DNA that move, or jump, from one location in the genome to another.

Adverse genetic mutations can cause harm and are due to various circumstances. "Jumping genes" are one cause of mutations, but cells try and combat them with a specialized RNA called piRNA. For ...