Jumping Genes Discovery Challenges Current Assumptions

Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 16:21 in Biology & Nature

Jumping genes do most of their jumping, not during the development of sperm and egg cells, but during the development of the embryo itself. The research challenges standard assumptions on the timing of when mobile DNA, so-called jumping genes, insert into the human genome.

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