Specific small RNA pathways protect germ line from transposons

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 - 14:35 in Biology & Nature

Cells of higher organisms are in a constant struggle against some of their own DNA - repeated bits of DNA sequence called transposons that have infiltrated host genomes over the eons. Transposons damage the rest of the genome when they copy themselves and jump into new genomic sites.

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