Exciting collaborative work from the Xu lab @JianXuLab and Abrams lab @genescene60 and others dissect the relationship between retrotransposons and their influence on myeloid leukemia.
Congrats to all for this amazing work!
https://t.co/nqOkJWF79y
In this study, Tiwari et al. establish that p53 continuously operates at the LINE1 promoter to restrict autonomous copies of these mobile elements in human cells. @CellUtsw@genescene60@UTSWNews
https://t.co/hbpWzQoEE1
Barbara McClintock is the only woman to be awarded an unshared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
By studying hereditary characteristics of corn like kernel colours, she proved genetic elements can change position on a chromosome and cause nearby genes to turn on or off.