The discovery of 'copy-paste' genetics within malaria's DNA reveals the impact of an underestimated evolutionary mechanism.

Billions of years ago, as primitive lifeforms were becoming more complex, a selfish genetic component became a sort of genome colonizer. Using a copy-and-paste mechanism, this pernicious bit of ...

Retrotransposons use a “copy and paste” mechanism to copy DNA into RNA before the RNA jumps to another location on the genome and is copied back into DNA by an enzyme called reverse transcriptase.

The researchers recognized how the copy-and-paste mechanism they use to move could be repurposed to edit genes at specific locations.

In DNA, retrotransposons can move around and insert themselves into other parts of genomes with a kind of copy and paste mechanism. Most have lost this ability in humans, but they still make up a ...

Sequencing the human genome revealed as early as 2001 that over 45% of it is composed by sequences called transposons, so-called 'jumping genes' that, through molecular copy-and-paste or cut-and ...