Cancer Jumping Genes

Remember the Mexican Jumping Beans when we were young? I just saw them again recently while working in Mexico. You hold them in your hand and the heat from your body makes them jump around. Its a strange thing but there is even stranger things than that.

Jumping gene can trigger colorectal cancer.

There is a new study that shows for the first time how a jumping gene can trigger colorectal cancer. The scientists have known about jumping genes, pieces of DNA that can move from one part of the genome to another, since the 1940’s. Nobel laureate and geneticist Barbara …read more