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 ...

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) approach that accelerates the identification of genes that contribute to neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism spectrum disorder ...

It may sound strange, but plants can remember stress. Scientists are still learning about how plants do this without a brain. But with climate change threatening crops around the world ...

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.

Jumping ‘Numts’ from Mitochondria Can Be Fast and Deadly Bits of DNA from mitochondria can skip surprisingly fast into our genome and may reduce lifespan ...

Jumping jacks, a staple of school gym classes, are not just for kids—they can also reveal much about your health. Even if you haven’t done the exercise recently, your ability to do them today ...

That process may have helped them to both counteract the accumulated damage caused by jumping genes and improve the shark’s DNA repair abilities.

Jumping genes —a cooler way of referring to autonomous transposons—can copy themselves and “jump” around the genome, transporting themselves across a sequence of (in this case) 90 billion ...

And under the right circumstances, these jumping genes could help the fish adapt to changing environments and conditions, reports Elizabeth Pennisi for Science.

"Jumping genes" are not a new type of leisure wear. They are integral components of the genetic-epigenetic continuum and the “genetic” expression of traits, biological or temperamental. The critical ...