DNA sequencing has two intertwined histories—that of the underlying technologies and that of the breadth of problems for which it has proven useful. Here we first review major developments in the ...

For decades, scientists dismissed transposable elements, also known as transposons or “jumping genes”, as useless “junk DNA”. But are they really? The early speculations of both McClintock and Britten ...

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