Transposons are critical drivers of bacterial evolution that have been studied for many decades and have been the subject of Nobel Prize winning research. Now, researchers from Cornell University have ...

Replication, heredity, and evolution are characteristic of Life. We and others have postulated that the reconstruction of a synthetic living system in the laboratory will be contingent on the ...

Fig. 4: The process of establishment of pre-RCs at an S. cerevisiae origin in which the B2 domain is separated from the A and B1 origin elements. This Review focuses on the first step in eukaryotic ...