Sandwalk

The current best model of the human genome is that only 10% is functional and 90% is junk. This model was first developed over half a centur...

If you align similar regions of the human and chimpanzee genomes they turn out to be about 98.6% identical in nucleotide sequence. The total...

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

Evelyn Fox Keller died a few days ago (Sept. 22, 2023). She was a professor of History and Philosopher of Science at the Massachusetts Inst...

Karen Miga deserves a lot of the credit for the complete human genome sequence. Karen Miga is a professor at the University of Califo...

John Mattick has a new book coming out in August where he defends the notion that most of our genome is full of genes for functonal noncodin...

Rama Singh, 1 a biology professor at McMaster Universtiy in Hamilton (Ontario, Canada) has just published an interesting article on The Con...

Several diseases, such as cancers, are caused by the presence of deleterious alleles that affect the function of a gene. In the case of canc...