Professor Indraneel Mittra | Horizontally Transferred Cell-Free Chromatin Particles: A New Frontier in Mammalian Genomics

Jan 19, 2026 | biology, health and medicine

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Professor Indraneel Mittra and his research team at the Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer, Mumbai, has discovered a surprising role for cell-free chromatin particles, cfChPs, in mammalian cells. Their findings position cfChPs as agents of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) and drivers of evolutionary change. Read More

Original Article Reference:

Summary of the paper: ‘Horizontally transferred cell-free chromatin particles function as autonomous ‘satellite genomes’ and vehicles for transposable elements within host cells’, in eLife, doi.org/10.7554/eLife.103771.3

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For further information, you can connect with Professor Indraneel Mittra at imittra@actrec.gov.in

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