An arms race is unfolding in our cells: Transposons, also known as jumping genes or mobile genetic elements as they can replicate and reinsert themselves in the genome, threaten the cell's genome ...

Jumping genes accelerate bacterial evolution in the laboratory. May 13, 2025. Large-scale study reveals functional diversity of DNA transposons and expands genome engineering toolbox.

Research performed in the Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering (CBSE) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, suggests that mobile repetitive elements–also known as transposons or ...

Transposons, or “jumping genes” – DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another – are key to bacterial evolution and the development of antibiotic resistance.

Transposons, so-called jumping genes, are a threat to genomes, so plants work hard to prevent them from mobilizing and re-inserting into the genome. Spirodela polyrhiza, the most ancient member of ...

Keith Slotkin, PhD, first became interested in transposable elements (TE), colloquially known as “jumping genes,” as an undergraduate student. “They just broke all the rules,” he said in ...

Likening his discovery to a paleontologist unearthing a new dinosaur species, Vladimir Kapitonov, a staff scientist at the Genetic Information Research Institute, recently revealed a new class of ...

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.

How Rogue Jumping Genes Can Spur Alzheimer's . Amber Dance Knowable Magazine June 18, 2025 Major Tom Agency Back in 2008, neurovirologist Renée Douville observed something weird in the brains of ...