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Many academic labs and startups are investigating the use of transposons and retrotransposons to insert genes for gene therapy.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024

Geneticist Kathleen Burns of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and her colleagues want to better define the role of transposons, lengths of DNA that modify the genome by moving from place to place.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 15, 2023

But transposons, or “jumping genes,” are actually capable of cutting and pasting themselves from one spot within the genetic code to another, preventing other genes from shaping an organism’s traits.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2022

This pace shifts the balance toward transposons accumulating rather than remaining constant, leaving the salamander genomes increasingly bloated over time.

From Scientific American • Feb. 2, 2022

Alternatively, many genes responsible for drug resistance are found on plasmids or in transposons that can be transferred easily between microbes of different species through horizontal gene transfer.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015