The degree to which selfish genetic elements are actually selfish may need a rethink. For decades, it has been assumed that the typical selfish genetic element is a bit of DNA that resides in a host’s ...

A component of the human intestinal flora that has been little studied to date is the focus of a new study. Plasmids are small extrachromosomal genetic elements that frequently occur in bacterial ...

The largest study so far into the genetics of chronic fatigue syndrome, or myalgic encephalomyelitis, has implicated 259 ...

Transposable elements are stretches of DNA that can move around the genome. Many of these DNA sequences originate from long ...

Certain pieces of DNA have been labeled as 'selfish genetic elements' due to notions that they don't contribute to a host organism's survival. Instead, researchers have now discovered that these ...

Technological advancements have enabled scientists to comprehensively explore genetic control elements, unraveling the complexities of gene activation mechanisms in our genetic code. New evidence ...

There is usually one bit of genomic DNA in a bacterial cell that encodes for most of its functions, but bacteria can carry other bits of genetic material like plasmids, which could carry a gene for ...

This study identifies around 11,000 housekeeping cis-regulatory elements (HK-CREs), revealing their important role in cellular stability and potential tumor suppression capability across diverse ...

A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

Transcription factors are proteins that can bind to DNA and affect the expression of genes; some are known as master regulators that can have a wide impact and affect crucial processes like ...