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

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

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 ...