Like the human immune system, bacteria learn from past infections. CRISPR sequences—short snippets of DNA from previous viruses—guide destructive enzymes towards invading bacteriophages that express ...
CRISPR will get easier and easier to administer. What does that mean for the future of our species? In 2016, I attended a large meeting of journalists in Washington, DC. The keynote speaker was ...
Retrotransposons had an important role in genome evolution, including the formation of new genes and promoters and the rewiring of gene networks. However, it is unclear how such a repertoire of ...