In case you needed more bad news lately, yet another new study revealed that a common health condition may be linked with ...

Transposons, also known as jumping genes or mobile genetic elements as they can replicate and reinsert themselves in the ...

The study, published in Cell today, reveals how the retrotransposon copia completes its replication cycle and travels into the nucleus through the nuclear pores. The study is a collaboration between ...

Oribatid mites, minuscule soil-dwelling creatures, have been decomposing organic matter for millions of years. With over 10,000 known species, they were among the earliest arthropods to colonize land, ...

Herpesvirus infection may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease through transposable element activation and neuroinflammation.

New research from The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health has found that "human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs)," a subset of transposable elements (TEs) found in genomic ...

Full details are published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association in a paper titled, “Human herpesvirus-associated transposable element activation in human ...

Researchers from Cleveland Clinic's Genome Center have outlined the pathway human herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV1) can use to contribute to Alzheimer's disease in aging brains. In a report published in ...

Dr. Cheng hypothesized that latent HPV-1 infections could trigger Alzheimer’s disease by directly activating the transposable elements the Cheng Lab had previously connected to disease ...

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