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On this I salute all the women studying carrying the torch lit by Barbara McClintock, who remains the only woman awarded an unshared Nobel prize in physiology or medicine, for her discovery of mobile genetic elements.

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2023-03-09

As early as 1948, Barbara McClintock discovered transposons – the „jumping genes“ in maize. This won her the Nobel Prize in 1983. Transposons play an important role in the generation of genetic variability in organisms. https://t.co/vLvZIBYMqs

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2022-04-05

Day 15 of is for thesis cover. His research focuses on retrotransposition in cancer. The idea was to visualize retrotransposons in parachutes that launch and land back in different areas of the genome and become parts of it.

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2021-12-16

25 - Transposon!

With transposons, I always think back to the first introduction I had to genetics in university, which was all about the maize genome. Barbara McClintock described Mobile Genetic Elements in Maize, for which she got a Novel prize.

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2021-10-26

25: TRANSPOSON

Also known as jumping genes, they’re a handy tool in a many pathogen's toolkit. Transposons give Cryptococcus neoformans the genetic room it needs to adapt & resist antibiotics during infection.

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2021-10-25

"I just knew I was right. Anybody who had had that evidence thrown at them with such abandon couldn't help but come to the conclusions I did about it." - Barbara McClintock

Full article: https://t.co/JHID06QSmb

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