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The Jumping Gene That Escaped Into a Virus — and May Still Be Moving in Us
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The Jumping Gene That Escaped Into a Virus — and May Still Be Moving in Us

BC200 is a human brain gene that never stopped jumping. A study in Science shows it leapt into a poxvirus ~100,000 years ago — the first such escape ever documented in the wild.

Meridian Newsroom30 Sept 20267 min read