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 ...

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 ...

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

As an element type that behaves like the retrovirus HIV, the LINE-1 "retrotransposon" is first copied into a molecule of RNA, the genetic material that partners with DNA, and then the RNA LINE-1 ...