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There are about 20,000 protein-coding genes in the human genome. We'd like to know what all these genes are doing but the only way to fi...

We all know that scientists at elite universities publish a lot more papers than scientists at other universities. Why is that? Is it becaus...

Most of the DNA in the human genome is transcribed at some point in development or in some cell type. This fact has been known since the l...

There is considerable debate in the scientific literature over the amount of junk DNA in the human genome. The standard model was developed ...

This is weird. I was a bit bored so I asked Gemini the following question: "What is the difference between junk DNA and non-coding DNA?...

There are somewhat less than 25,000 genes in the human genome and there are probably about the same number of pseudogenes. Pseudogenes are...

Can modern biologists get along with modern philosphers of biology? James DiFrisco and Steven Orzack think they can and they have suggestion...

Can modern biologists get along with modern philosphers of biology? James DiFrisco and Steven Orzack think they can and they have suggestion...

The leading edge of the baby boomer generation is turning 80 this year (that's me!). Chris Christie is a trailing edge baby boomer. C...

This is a serious question. We ( Sandwalk readers) know that there's a lot of science misinformation being spread in the popular scienc...

I've written quite a bit about the perceived conflict between science and philosophy and defended my view that science is best described...

I was intrigued by a recent article by Carlos Lozade in The New York Times : America Has Become a Dangerous Nation . The opening paragraph s...

I once participated in a discussion about introducing indigenous ways of knowing in the Ontario science curriculum. The idea was to have hig...

One of my Facebook friends posted a link to an article on genetic drift on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy website [ Genetic Drift ]...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! These are my great-grandparents Thomas Keys Foster, born in County Tyrone on September 5, 1852 and Eliza Ann Jo...