Part of the answer to how and why humans differ from other primates may lie in the repetitive stretches of the genome that were once considered "junk." A new study finds that when a particular type of ...

'Alu' sequences are small repetitive elements representing about 10 percent of our genome. Because of their ability to move around the genome, these 'jumping genes' are considered as real motors of ...

ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) is the fundamental unit of a microprocessor which performs all the basic operations based on the control input selection. There are separate units which work independent of ...

Alternative splicing (AS) is a major contributor to transcriptome and proteome diversity. Evolutionary studies help to address questions that are fundamental to understanding this important process.

Adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing, in which genomically encoded adenosine is changed to inosine in RNA, is catalyzed by adenosine deaminase acting on RNA (ADAR). This fine-tuning mechanism is ...