Transposon

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Transposon - A segment of DNA with a repeat of an insertion sequence element at each end and which can migrate from one plasmid to another within the same bacterium, to a bacterial chromosome, or to a bacteriophage.
[NABIR Bioremediation Glossary]

News archive for Transposon:

Tips for wide-scale epigenetic detection  -  Aug 1, 2008
Scientist,..."When you compare two flies, if the number of siRNAs against some transposon changes, is that because the transposon content of the two strains is different

Stable gene transfer of CCR5 and CXCR4 siRNAs by sleeping ...  -  Jul 30, 2008
7thSpace Interactive (press release),Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon system offers a non-viral method of gene transfer to avoid this possible risk. With respect to conferring HIV resistance,

The Scientific Roots of Modern Plant Biotechnology  -  Jul 23, 2008
RedOrbit,A Ti plasmid insertion mutant containing a Tn904 transposon in the center of the T-DNA region induced tumors on tobacco plants that gave rise to roots.

Growth rate regulated genes and their wide involvement in the ...  -  Jul 21, 2008
7thSpace Interactive (press release),Many phages, prophages and transposon related genes were down regulated as growth rate increased. The growth rate response was compared to carbon and

Development of methods for the genetic manipulation of ...  -  Jul 11, 2008
7thSpace Interactive (press release),The transposon Tn4351 wassuccessfully introduced into F. columnare, but the method was dependent on selecting for erythromycin resistance.

Full Text  -  Jul 10, 2008
Science Magazine (subscription)We used an agar plate assay to screen 3600 BB2000 mutants, generated by random transposon mutagenesis, in a format where each mutant swarm had two, three,

MAPK Signaling Regulates Nitric Oxide and NADPH Oxidase-Dependent ...  -  Jul 23, 2008
RedOrbit,Effective vectors for transformation, expression of heterologous genes, and assaying transposon excision in transgenic plants. Transgenic Res. 1: 285.297.

'Open source' strategy should be valuable tool for genomic ...  -  Jul 25, 2008
7thSpace Interactive (press release),The potential for discovery is great, said Dan Voytas, Ph.D., director of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Transposon Research, and co-investigator

Manipulating DNA: Building A Better Being  -  Jul 25, 2008
Tom's Guide,In the July 25 issue of Molecular Cell, researchers, including Dr. Dan Voytas, director of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Transposon Research at

Mit Dornröschen gegen Krebs  -  Jul 10, 2008
Handelsblatt,Hinter der Märchenfigur verbirgt sich ein springendes Gen, unter Genetikern auch Transposon genannt. Dieses kann wie ein Floh von Wirt zu Wirt hüpfen,

UT Arlington biologist's collaborative research explains how ...  -  04 Dec 2007
Pegasus News,...identified a giant –sized transposon present in nematodes, sea urchins and clawed frogs, which they named “Mavericks� in honor of the campus mascot.

Jack Li '08 Presents Summer Research at Sigma Xi Conference  -  Nov 30, 2007
Hamilton College News,Jack Li '08 presented his summer research on the use of transposon genetics as a marker for evolutionary biology at this year's Sigma Xi research conference

Jumping genes for safer gene delivery  -  Nov 15, 2007
Genetic Engineering News (press release),Dr. Lambert goes on to describe transposon gene delivery systems and how they work. She talks about common transposons currently in use and why they would

phd Studentship UK / EU Funded - Discovering and Manipulating ...  -  Nov 20, 2007
Nature.com (subscription),Transposon integration, behaviour and stability will be studied over several generations and compared to Ds transposition behaviour in rice,

UI researchers receive grants to study cancer  -  Nov 12, 2007
Iowa City Press Citizen,The researchers also will try to identify new breast cancer genes in mouse models by using the "sleeping beauty" transposon system.

Hydra from out of nowhere  -  Aug 3, 2007
Australian Life Scientist,The researchers do not yet know how the hydra gene was created, but they speculate that the gene may have developed from a transposon, also known as a

Full Text  -  Aug 16, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)A transposon-activated marker gene was turned on in the developing nervous system of a mouse embryo (top) in the same places as a key transcription-factor

Full Text  -  Aug 2, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)...which in the fer mutant contains a 4–base pair (bp) insertion corresponding to the footprint left after excision of a Ds transposon (Fig. 1D).

Geneticist new State Dept. advisor  -  Aug 1, 2007
Scientist,Advancing the work of famed maize geneticist Barbara McClintock, Fedoroff cloned the first maize transposon in the early 1980s.




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