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                                    Strolling with a skeptical biochemist

Friday, May 23, 2025

An editorial in "Nature Reviews Genetics" misrepresents alternative splicing

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The transcripts of some genes can be alternatively spliced to produce more than one biologically functional product (e.g. proteins). There a...
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Thursday, May 22, 2025

Is AI really "intelligent"? Here are 13 biology questions to test the latest AI algorithms.

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Last night I attended a talk by Chris DiCarlo who warned us about the dangers of AI. I'm sure he's right to be worried but I'm s...
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Monday, May 19, 2025

A new higher mutation rate in humans includes indels in repetitive DNA regions

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Theme Mutation -definition -mutation types -mutation rates -phylogeny -controversies There are three ways of estimating the human m...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2025

L'ADN poubelle: Junk DNA

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This is a podcast in French on the topic of junk DNA. The moderator is Thomas C. Durand of La Tronche en Biais , a YouTube channel that focu...
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Sunday, May 04, 2025

Current Trump tariffs

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Here's a list of the current Trump tariffs taken from Wikpedia . It's important to remember that there's a 10% tariff on every c...
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Saturday, May 03, 2025

American Society of Human Genetics DNA Day essay contest winners

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The American Society of Human Genetics sponsors an annual DNA Day Essay Contest . It's for grade 9-12 students from anywhere in the worl...
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President Trump promotes the lab leak conspiracy theory on the White House website

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Knowledgeable scientists agree that the COVID-19 pandemic began when the virus SARS-CoV-2 infected citizens of Wuhan who were visiting the w...
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Saturday, April 12, 2025

Templeton Foundation funds a grant on transposons

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The John Templeton Foundation supports "interdisciplinary research and catalyze conversations that enable people to pursue lives of me...
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Tuesday, April 01, 2025

Structure of the mitochondrial respirasome (electron transport complexes)

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The membranes of bacterial cells and mitochondria contain a series of complexes that catalyze the oxidation of NADH. A lengthy electron tran...
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Saturday, March 29, 2025

Tom Cech rejects junk DNA

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A few months ago (June, 2024) I commented on an article by Tom Cech in The New York Times . [ Tom Cech writes about the "dark matter...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Michael Shermer supports Matt Ridley and the lab leak conspiracy theory

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Back in 2021 Matt Ridley teamed up with Alina Chan to publish a book promoting the lab leak conspiracy theory about the origin of SARS-CoV-2...
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Zeynep Tufekci writes in the New York Times defending the conspiracy part of the COVID-19 lab leak conspiracy theory

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Zeynep Tufekci is Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ, USA). She is often prai...
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Monday, March 24, 2025

Google's "Generative AI" lies about junk DNA

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Every now and then I check Google to see if there's any news about junk DNA. I use "junk DNA" as my search query. The fi...
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Friday, March 21, 2025

The misinformation spread by ENCODE in 2012 is gradually being recognized

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I want to draw your attention to an excellent online book on bacterial genomes: Bacterial Genomes:Trees and Networks . The author is Aswin S...
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Monday, March 17, 2025

Happy St. Patrick's Day! 2025

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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...
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