The tale of much of Barbara McClintock’s life is that of the scientist working long hours with a microscope seeking to solve mysteries. The mystery she spent most of her career trying to solve ...

Barbara McClintock's discovery of transposable elements in Zea mays changed the way scientists think about genetic patterns of inheritance. Although not widely accepted at the time of its ...

Interestingly, it was Barbara McClintock who first speculated that TEs might play this kind of regulatory role (McClintock, 1951). It has taken decades for scientists to collect enough evidence to ...