Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are widespread across the tree of life. Once dismissed as the 'dark side' of the ...
A team of stem cell scientists have successfully used embryonic stem cell engineering to create a bi-paternal mouse -- a mouse with two male parents -- that lived until adulthood. Their results ...
"We have demonstrated that OGT activity is required for embryonic development," said Sara Formichetti ... the essential role of O-GlcNAc in the mouse embryo, PLOS Genetics (2025).