There are many molecules with therapeutic potential, but it can be a challenge to deliver them to the right places at the ...

“I think we’re going to see a lot more attention paid to the evolution of transposable elements and their function.” Researchers from the University of Chicago and their colleagues first sequenced RNA ...

DNA transposons are able to excise themselves out of the genome and be inserted somewhere else, whereas retrotransposons copy themselves through an RNA intermediate. Similar to viral insertions in ...

and about 65% of human transposons are intronic. However, when they accidently end up within genes, they can alter gene ...

These so-called endogenous retroviruses could then be transcribed into virus-like RNA that incited an immune response in cultured ovarian cancer cells. “The cell acts like it has a virus,” ...