Viral 'parasites' may play a key role in the maintenance of cell pluripotency

In a study published in Nature Genetics, scientists from the RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies in Japan, in collaboration with the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, the University of Copenhagen and the Joint Genome Institute have discovered that "jumping DNA" known as retrotransposons-viral elements incorporated into the human ... (more)

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