Antimicrobial resistance not only undermines the efficacy of current treatments but also endangers the entirety of modern ...

Transposons are critical drivers of bacterial evolution that have been studied for many decades and have been the subject of Nobel Prize winning research. Now, researchers from Cornell University ...

Transposons, or "jumping genes" – DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another – are key to bacterial evolution and the development of antibiotic resistance.

Transposons, or 'jumping genes' -- DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another -- are key to bacterial evolution and the development of antibiotic resistance. Researchers ...

A new USC Leonard Davis School-led study highlights how transposons—commonly called "jumping genes" because of their ability to move to different parts of the genome—are associated with age ...

A research team led by ZHANG Yong'e and WANG Haoyi from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has characterized the diversity of DNA transposons and expanded the genome ...

Number of plasmids without transposons Y (t): Total number of transposons, T (t): or Chom is the number rate of reintroduction of transposons reintroduced to excised plasmids sites (cell -1 [TnpB] -1 ...

Blocking transposons resulted in a significant lifespan extension of between one to four days. The average worm lifespan is about 21 days, so this increase represents a five to 15 percent boost.

The culprit, they say, is an overabundance of "jumping genes," called transposons, that carry the genetic instructions for resistance from the cell's source code to plasmids that shuttle between ...