Scientists visually tracked an RNA intron jumping from a predator to its prey, revealing insights into gene transfer across ...

Explore the complex balance of risks and benefits in gene drives, a powerful tool in genetic engineering and disease control.

A unique gene found in sloths might hold the key to ageing well, a pioneering study has suggested. In a scientific first, researchers have sequenced and analysed the genome of the ...

For more than three decades, researchers studying genomes have relied on foundational resources such as Repbase and, more recently, Dfam, to identify and classify transposable elements — the mobile ...

Deep within tropical forests, sloths move at a pace that seems almost frozen in time. Their slow movements, low energy use, and quiet lives have long puzzled scientists.

Polar bear subpopulations across the Arctic are losing genetic diversity and showing divergent gene activity as sea ice shrinks beneath them. Peer-reviewed research from Greenland and the Barents Sea ...

The Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project (BDGP) strives to disrupt each Drosophila gene by the insertion of a single transposable element. As part of this effort, transposons in >30,000 fly strains were ...

Terrier is a Neural Network model to classify transposable element sequences. It is based on ‘corgi’ which was trained to do hierarchical taxonomic classification of DNA sequences. This model was ...

Duke researchers find a surprising genetic source of lethal mutations in fruit flies, with possible implications for conservation and health Scientists have puzzled for decades over a basic ...

Social behavior is essential to quality of life but is often impaired in neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders. At the genetic level, the origins of complex social behaviors are not well ...

Around 45 percent of human DNA is made up of transposable elements, or TEs—genetic leftovers from now-extinct viruses that scientists once believed to be “junk DNA.” But that view is changing, and a ...