Viruses are known to use the genetic machinery of the human cells they invade to make copies of themselves. As part of the ...

The genome incorporation mechanism for LINE-1, the only autonomously active retrotransposon in humans, leverages the cell ...

The only remaining autonomous 'jumping gene' can only attach to, and stitch a copy of itself into, DNA when it builds up into large clusters and only as cells divide.

A new study reveals that a transposable element binds to cellular DNA during the brief periods when nuclei break open as ...

For the first time, researchers have captured a retrotransposon in action within a living cell. By refining Cryo-Electron Tomography (cryo-ET) techniques, scientists imaged the retrotransposon ...

Viruses are known to use the genetic machinery of the human cells they invade to make copies of themselves. As part of the process, viruses leave behind remnants throughout the genetic material ...

We propose that silencing of retrotransposons occurs by cosuppression during early embryogenesis, but that this process is imperfect and produces a mosaic pattern of retrotransposon expression in ...

We have carried out pioneering work on the development and application of retrotransposon markers in barley, in an EU project with the major European groups who are developing them for other crops.

PNMA-family genes are gag-like elements of ancient retrotransposon origin whose roles in mammalian genomes is incompletely understood. Wood et al. found that two retrotransposon-derived proteins ...