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A gene from the human brain leapt into a virus—and scientists have no idea what it’s doing there
Researchers say BC200’s double life has never been seen before. The implications aren’t comforting.
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A human brain gene has been jumping around our DNA for 40 million years. Scientists just found it in a virus
In 2010, researchers searching through viral DNA stumbled upon something that didn’t belong there. Inside the genome of a ...
Scientists have discovered a human gene with a remarkable double life: it appears to play an important role in brain cells while still retaining the ability to jump around the genome. Called BC200, ...
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Machine learning analysis of gene regulation reveals new dimension of biological variability
Changes in our genes affect health risks from heart disease to cancer, but how those genes are turned on and off is just as ...
Before 2026, no documentation existed of a human gene that was both mobile and required for bodily functions. However, ...
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DNA From a Human Brain Gene Has Turned Up In a Virus
Unrelated virus. (Heather Davies/SPL/Getty Images) Some pieces of our DNA can copy themselves into new locations. Copies ...
A gene responsible for producing a critical enzyme in inflammatory signalling has been identified after more than 30 years, ...
The formation of a human embryo is the point at which a human being begins to exist as a unique individual. There are complicating events, such as twinning, when an embryo splits into two — or ...
In recent months, news came out about several distressing cases that have underscored the risks of gene therapy, which ...
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