Over the spring semester, prestigious national and international organizations recognized Brown faculty for their research, ...

Insects possess a remarkable ability to develop innate immune memory, and the mechanisms underlying this process are becoming a central topic in innate immunity research.

Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is ...

New AI helps unlock how tiny RNAs (piRNAs) control genes by binding to genetic instructions (mRNAs). This breakthrough in ...

A new review from Genes and Diseases sheds light on the pivotal role of LINE-1 elements in preimplantation development and totipotency, revealing ...

Transposable elements (TEs), or so-called jumping genes, are another part of the genome that scientists are still learning about. TEs have ancient origins, and probably were once instrumental and ...

Heterochromatin, sometimes referred to as the dark side of the genome, contains a myriad of transposable elements (TEs) – dangerous units of DNA. TEs normally remain silent in heterochromatin, but ...

A new review from Genes and Diseases sheds light on the pivotal role of LINE-1 elements in preimplantation development and totipotency, revealing ...

Transposable elements have been co-opted for new purposes through evolutionary history—for instance, the RAG genes in immune cells and the genes required for driving the development of the ...

An international group of researchers at the University of Cologne have explored the asexual reproduction of oribatid mites ...

Inhibition of mutant IDH drives DNA demethylation, derepressing the promoter of cGAS and subclasses of transposable elements. (This derepression is mediated by the DNA demethylase TET2, which is ...

And a gene family that silences transposable elements appears to have far fewer members in the South American lungfish. (Humans and other lungfish have about 300 copies, while the South American ...