The emergence of reproductive barriers between closely related populations is a fundamental step in speciation, yet the underlying genetic mechanisms remain poorly understood in mammals. Here we resol...

Professor Tracey Chapman, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia – contact me Dr William Nash, UEA Dr Phil Leftwich, UEA Dr Emily Fowler, UEA Dr Lucy Friend (RA), UEA In all species…

This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the infamous claim that, unlike James Watson, Franklin ...

Are you fascinated by how eukaryotic genomes evolve? Do you want to look beyond model organisms and point mutations to uncover the complexity of genome evolution?

Background Koala Retrovirus-A is a gamma-retrovirus that is spreading across wild koala populations through horizontal and vertical transmission, contributing significantly to genomic diversity across...

Chandra Reveals the Elementary Nature of Cassiopeia A

Single-cell transcriptomics, spatial transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility maps of the human craniofacial region in developing embryos provide insights into the mechanisms underlying facial vari...

Retrotransposons can infect neighboring cells using a mechanism that relies on a small fusogen-like protein rather than on the envelope protein that is typically required for infection.

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In the last decade, there has been an explosion in the development of in vivo germline genetic editing technologies in arthropods, first pioneered by the Receptor-Mediated Ovary Transduction of Cargo ...

As a fundamental biological principle, genomic information is typically transmitted vertically from parent to offspring. Occasionally, however, genetic material is transferred horizontally between spe...

Find out why there is still no second part in my series on Drosophila TE names — and how I spent my summer instead.

⭐ We are recruiting an M2 student for a 6-month internship in Montpellier in 2027!   Together with Albert Tsai, we are looking for a motivated Master 2 student to join our collaborative project: From ...

Inflammation induces interchromosomal DNA interactions that bring parent genes into close proximity, facilitating the formation of chimeric mRNAs that encode physiologically relevant, functional prote...

Transposable-element (TE) abundance can vary substantially among populations, yet population-specific differences in TE content remain incompletely characterized. Here, we compared known TE families a...

Arteriovenous fistulas are the most common vascular access points for hemodialysis, but they have a high incidence of postoperative dysfunction, mainly due to excessive neointimal hyperplasia. Here, t...

Super-enhancers have been proposed to cluster in the nucleus when compared to other genomic elements. Le et al. found that super-enhancer clustering was rare and driven by non-specific interactions. P...

A postdoctoral scholarship within the project “Transposable elements and the aging human brain: Functional Insights and therapeutic opportunities”

Repeated gene families in Drosophila melanogaster