Hitchhiking DNA picked up by a gene may save a species from extinction

An international research team led by Hiroki Shibuya at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan has ...

How a human 'jumping gene' targets structured DNA to reshape the genome

Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...