transposon
noun
trans·po·son
tran(t)s-ˈpō-zän 
: a transposable element especially when it contains genetic material controlling functions other than those related to its relocation
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The team behind the pregnancy finding hadn’t set out to study transposons.
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Bycatherine Offord, science.org, 24 Oct. 2024
To show this was potentially useful for gene editing, the researchers blocked the production of the transposon's own RNA and fed it a replacement RNA that worked.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 June 2024
Yet bacterial transposons do exist, and a team of scientists based in the US and Japan identified one with a rather unusual feature.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 June 2024
Researchers believe they’re somehow partnered with transposons — maybe helping them, or perhaps hitching a ride.
—Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
Some of these system-wide changes removed repetitive segments of DNA or took out pieces called transposons that make genomes more prone to mutation.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Mar. 2017
Get Quanta Magazine delivered to your inbox Introduction Previous studies of horizontal transfers have often focused on the mobile genetic elements called transposons.
—Saugat Bolakhe, Quanta Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
In 2020, their work uncovered nearly 1,000 distinct horizontal transfers involving transposons that had occurred in over 300 vertebrate genomes.
—Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
In 2021 Wang discovered a transposon that activates a critical gene in mouse embryos; delete that single transposon, and many of the embryos die.
—Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
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Bycatherine Offord, science.org, 24 Oct. 2024
To show this was potentially useful for gene editing, the researchers blocked the production of the transposon's own RNA and fed it a replacement RNA that worked.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 June 2024
Yet bacterial transposons do exist, and a team of scientists based in the US and Japan identified one with a rather unusual feature.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 June 2024
Researchers believe they’re somehow partnered with transposons — maybe helping them, or perhaps hitching a ride.
—Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
Some of these system-wide changes removed repetitive segments of DNA or took out pieces called transposons that make genomes more prone to mutation.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Mar. 2017
Get Quanta Magazine delivered to your inbox Introduction Previous studies of horizontal transfers have often focused on the mobile genetic elements called transposons.
—Saugat Bolakhe, Quanta Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
In 2020, their work uncovered nearly 1,000 distinct horizontal transfers involving transposons that had occurred in over 300 vertebrate genomes.
—Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
In 2021 Wang discovered a transposon that activates a critical gene in mouse embryos; delete that single transposon, and many of the embryos die.
—Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
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transposon
noun
trans·po·son
ˌtran(t)s-ˈpō-ˌzän
: a transposable element especially when it contains genetic material controlling functions other than those related to its relocation
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