Sandwalk

A recent paper on characterizing endogenous retrovirus sequences has attracted some attention because of a press release from Kyoto Universi...

The seven traits that Gregor Mendel worked with were: seed shape (R/r), cotyledon color (I/i), seed and flower color (A/a), pod shape (V/v...

At the end of last year (2024) I posted an article about distinguished molecular biologist William Hasletine who published an article in Fo...

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

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...

Theme Mutation -definition -mutation types -mutation rates -phylogeny -controversies There are three ways of estimating the human m...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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