Panoramix: Protein named for comic book hero guides gene-silencing machinery to sites of havoc-causing transposons
Thursday, October 15, 2015 - 13:31
in Biology & Nature
Organisms from bacteria to humans must defend themselves against parasitic genetic elements called transposons, and the stakes are high. These pieces of DNA, which disrupt genes by jumping around in the genome, can cause so much destruction that cells have dedicated surveillance mechanisms to keep them in check.