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Preventing genomic entropy

Tethering Transposons Excerpt: Transposons—thought to be related to viruses—can copy themselves and insert randomly around the genome. A paper published today (October 15) in Science provides a greater understanding of how cells shut down these rogue jumping genes. My comment: Shouldn’t someone else be claiming that nutrient-dependent microRNAs prevent the accumulation of viral microRNAs that leads Preventing genomic entropy