Sentences with phrase «how jumping genes»
She studies how jumping genes have influenced fruit fly evolution.
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Although piRNAs have been known about for many years, scientists have until now had very little understanding of exactly how the piRNAs that guide PIWI proteins to jumping genes in the nucleus are produced.
Researchers still don't know how gene drives will behave in the wild, whether the public will accept them or what regulatory hoops they will have to jump through.
A European team of scientists has discovered how the cells produce tiny pieces of RNA — called piRNA — that identify and silence «jumping genes» or transposons: genes that are able to change their position within the genome and therefore alter or disrupt the genetic code.
The «methylome» — a picture of the genome regulation taking place in the truffle, is published in the open access journal Genome Biology and illustrates how the truffle deals with its complex genome's repeating elements and «jumping genes».
Bob Bloomer asked how organisms» molecular machinery can run smoothly when there are so many «jumping genes» around.
«Civil war inside our cells: Scientists show how our bodies fight off «jumping genes».»
How these self - promoting genes jump to these prime locations remains a mystery, but the researchers believe it may have to do with the DNA's three - dimensional structure in particular areas that allows for genetic rearrangement when the genome is being copied or when certain genes are active.
To be sure the jumping gene was responsible for the black wings seen during the Industrial Revolution, Saccheri and his coworkers figured out how old the mutation was.
Listen in on a chat with Orsolya Barabas of EMBL Heidelberg and Ramesh Pillai of EMBL Grenoble about the chaos that transposons, or «jumping genes», can inflict upon our cells, how we keep them under control, and why we have them at all.
«Now, we have a mechanism to explain how sequences that comprise one - third of our genome have moved,» says John Moran, Ph.D., senior author of the new paper and a longtime U-M and HHMI researcher studying jumping genes.
They're also interested in how the cell, or host, fights off jumping genes and protects DNA from damage.