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

Transposable elements, or "jumping genes", were first identified by Barbara McClintock more than 50 years ago. Why are transposons so common in eukaryotes, and exactly what do they do? In addition ...

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

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 ...

For decades, scientists dismissed transposable elements, also known as transposons or “jumping genes”, as useless “junk DNA”. But are they really? The early speculations of both McClintock ...

In particular, over the past decade or so, researchers such as Chiappinelli have been amassing a body of evidence that these elements can both help and hinder the growth of cancer. Studies show that ...

Among other things, this regulation allows cells within the body to take on different roles and keeps transposable elements (TEs) from excessively jumping around and wreaking genomic havoc—in most ...