Rockefeller University: Revealing How an Ancient Genetic Invader Inhabits Our DNA
December 22, 2023
December 22, 2023
NEW YORK, Dec. 22 (TNSres) -- Rockefeller University issued the following news:
Billions of years ago, as primitive lifeforms were becoming more complex, a selfish genetic component became a sort of genome colonizer. Using a copy-and-paste mechanism, this pernicious bit of code replicated and inserted itself again and again into a variety of genomes. Over time, all eukaryotic organisms inherited the code--including us. In fact, this ancient genetic element wrote about one-third of t . . .
Billions of years ago, as primitive lifeforms were becoming more complex, a selfish genetic component became a sort of genome colonizer. Using a copy-and-paste mechanism, this pernicious bit of code replicated and inserted itself again and again into a variety of genomes. Over time, all eukaryotic organisms inherited the code--including us. In fact, this ancient genetic element wrote about one-third of t . . .