In a paper published in Science, researchers show that transposons can target and insert themselves at the ends of linear ...

Scientific debates can be as passionate and high-profile as political ones. Learn about an epic battle waged between the Castle and Morgan laboratories over the organization of genes. Sturtevant's ...

In a paper under embargo in Science until 2pm ET on March 6, 2025, researchers show that transposons can target and insert themselves at the ends of linear chromosomes, called telomeres ...

In some organisms, like humans, chromosomes are linear, but in other organisms, like bacteria, chromosomes are typically circular. In prokaryotes, the circular chromosome is contained in the ...

Instead of the linear chromosomes found in mammals, the team crafted a circular chromosome, which is compatible with DNA replication in yeast. They then assembled the HAC inside budding yeast. By ...

Transposons have been found clustered at the chromosome ends in eukaryotic cells, but this is the first time it's been documented in bacteria with linear chromosomes, and the researchers found ...