Interestingly, it was Barbara McClintock who first speculated that ... Can Encode siRNAs That Mediate Their Own Silencing Because transposon movement can be destructive, it is not surprising ...

McClintock’s maize breeding experiments provided the first detailed descriptions of transposable elements. What exactly are these “jumping genes,” and why are they so important?

It is so cold where UAB marine biologist James McClintock, Ph.D. at McMurdo Station on the Ross Sea chose to begin his polar research career that he and his team had to drill and blast their way ...