DNA element with a murky past is borrowing cell's repair machinery

ScienceDaily
Jul 12, 2023, 4:46 pm153 pts
Like their viral cousins, retrotransposons have been found borrowing the cell's own machinery to achieve their goals. They hijack a little-known piece of the cell's DNA repair function to close themselves into a ring-like shape and then create a matching double strand. The finding upends 40 years of…

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