Transposable elements, or "jumping genes", were first identified by Barbara McClintock more than 50 years ago. Why are transposons so common in eukaryotes, and exactly what do they do? In addition ...

RNA-based medicines are one of the most promising ways to fight human disease, as demonstrated by the recent successes of RNA ...

UMD researchers have discovered key mechanisms in gene regulation that could improve the design of RNA-based medicines.

Surprisingly, it wasn’t some mutation that knocked out this gene but rather a so-called “jumping gene” known as AluY. Jumping ...

But Chiappinelli, then a postdoctoral fellow in Stephen Baylin’s lab at Johns Hopkins University, also saw an upregulation in genes involved in innate immunity ... these elements are mere relics of ...

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 ...

No one believed Barbara McClintock in 1951 when she first described DNA that "jumped" from site to site within maize chromosomes, altering the expression of genes near the sites of integration. In due ...

The research team also discovered a gene called sdg-1 that helps regulate "jumping genes"—DNA sequences that tend to move or copy themselves to different locations on a chromosome. While jumping ...