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Amgen Inc. is a major pharmaceutical company based in Thousand Oaks, California (USA). [ Wikipedia: Amgen ] It was founded in 1980 to exploi...

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...

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

The expression of genes is regulated at many levels but one of the most important is regulation at the level of transcription. Transcription...

I recently reported that Google's AI program does a horrible job of summarizing the junk DNA controversy. [ The scary future of AI is re...

I complain a lot about the quality of science writing but today's post is very different. I want to highlight an article by Michael Le P...

Today I did a Google search for the term "JUNK DNA" and, as usual, the first thing I saw was the Google AI description of junk DNA...

There is considerable controversy over the total number of genes in the human genome. The number of protein-coding genes is pretty well esta...

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...

90% of the human genome is junk DNA. Today I did a routine search for "junk DNA" "2025" to see if misinformation i...

I'm giving a talk next Wednesday (October 1st) to the members of the Senior College (retired faculty). It's at the University of Tor...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...