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 ...

It may sound strange, but plants can remember stress. Scientists are still learning about how plants do this without a brain.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

3-D modeling shows that Alu insertions within the TOMM40 gene could make the channel protein it encodes fold into the wrong shape, causing the mitochondria's import machinery to clog and stop working.

Pig organs are about the same size as humans,’ so some scientists and transplant surgeons see them as candidates to solve the problem of a shortage of organ donors, reports The New York Times.

From the first woman to win a Nobel Prize to the discoverer of jumping genes, here are some of the women who have made major contributions to science and mathematics.

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

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 ...