PIWI Pathway Isn't Perfect But It's What Keeps Transposons From Destroying Your Genes

Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 10:10 in Biology & Nature

We like to think of evolution as a fine-tuning process, one that whittles away genetic imperfections and redundancies and converges on a more efficient system because of 'survival of the fittest'. But natural selection is just one mechanism of evolution and what is fittest at one point may not have been fittest at another, yet could still be inherited. Our bodies are full of parts that we inherited and either don't work anymore or are rather buggy and other parts have simply found a way to make work. read more

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