Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are widespread across the tree of life. Once dismissed as the 'dark side' of the ...

Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, professor of mammalian development ... natural and synthetic mouse embryos looked very similar after eight days "This period of human life is so mysterious ...

Old viral DNA, once thought to be gone forever, is reactivated in mammalian embryos, with each species showing unique ...

The development of human synthetic embryos was announced ... She has already developed synthetic mouse embryos with evidence of a developing brain and beating heart. Meanwhile, scientists in ...

Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are ...

Over half of our genomes consist of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are widespread across the tree of life. Once dismissed as the "dark side" of the ...

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and LMU reveal how transposable elements – ancient viral DNA remnants – reactivate during ...

Protein modifications are key to cell survival because they ensure they do what they are supposed to do in a healthy system.

The placenta is essential for embryo development and ... affect cohesin genes cause the human developmental disorder Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS). Mouse models of CdLS show placental ...

Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are ...