An international research team led by Freiburg biologists Dr. Wenjing Qi and Prof. Ralf Baumeister has discovered how the LINE1 retrotransposon ...

An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide insights into how mobile elements in DNA hijack cellular functions – and how ...

An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of the evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide ...

Genetic engineering articles from across Nature Portfolio Genetic engineering is the act of modifying the genetic makeup of an organism. Modifications can be generated by methods such as gene ...

Insects possess a remarkable ability to develop innate immune memory, and the mechanisms underlying this process are becoming a central topic in innate immunity research.

Transgenic plants are plants into which one or more genes from another species have been introduced into the genome, using genetic engineering processes. Techniques include the biolistic method ...