Showing posts with label Junk RNA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Junk RNA. Show all posts
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Do plants have junk DNA?

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Current Opinion in Plant Biology has a special edition devoted to Genome studies and molecular genetics 2024 . The only paper (so far) that...
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Friday, September 27, 2024

John Mattick's seminar at the University of Toronto

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I just learned that John Mattick gave a seminar this morning at the Department of Cell & Systems Biology at the University of Toronto. U...
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Wednesday, June 05, 2024

Tom Cech writes about the "dark matter" of the genome

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Tom Cech won a Nobel Prize for discovering one example of a catalytic RNA. He recently published an article in the New York Times extolling...
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Friday, March 15, 2024

Nils Walter disputes junk DNA: (9) Reconciliation

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I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is arguing against junk DNA by claiming that the human genome ...
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Thursday, March 14, 2024

Nils Walter disputes junk DNA: (8) Transcription factors and their binding sites

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I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is arguing against junk DNA by claiming that the human genome ...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Nils Walter disputes junk DNA: (7) Conservation of transcribed DNA

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I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is arguing against junk DNA by claiming that the human genome ...
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Sunday, March 03, 2024

Nils Walter disputes junk DNA: (5) What does the number of transcripts per cell tell us about function?

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I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is arguing against junk DNA by claiming that the human genome ...
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Saturday, March 02, 2024

Nils Walter disputes junk DNA: (4) Different views of non-functional transcripts

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I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is trying to explain the conflict between proponents of junk D...
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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Nils Walter disputes junk DNA: (3) Defining 'gene' and 'function'

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I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is trying to explain the conflict between proponents of junk D...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Nils Walter disputes junk DNA: (2) The paradigm shaft

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I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is trying to explain the conflict between proponents of junk D...
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Monday, September 04, 2023

John Mattick's paradigm shaft

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Paradigm shifts are rare but paradigm shafts are common. A paradigm shaft is when a scientist describes a false paradigm that supposedly rul...
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Saturday, November 05, 2022

Nature journalist is confused about noncoding RNAs and junk

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Nature Methods is one of the journals in Nature Portfolio published by Springer Nature. Its focus is novel methods in the life sciences. ...
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Thursday, August 04, 2022

Identifying functional DNA (and junk) by purifying selection

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Functional DNA is best defined as DNA that is currently under purifying selection. In other words, it can't be deleted without affecting...
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Saturday, May 14, 2022

Editing the Wikipedia article on non-coding DNA

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I decided to edit the Wikipedia article on non-coding DNA by adding new sections on "Noncoding genes," "Promoters and regula...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

John Mattick presents his view of genomes

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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...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) spreads misinformation about junk DNA

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The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) is a pretigious society of workers in the field of molecular evolution. I am a member...
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Friday, March 12, 2021

The bad news from Ghent

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A group of scientists, mostly from the University of Ghent 1 (Belgium), have posted a paper on bioRxiv. Lorenzi, L., Chiu, H.-S., Cobos, F...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020

On the misrepresentation of facts about lncRNAs

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I've been complaining for years about how opponents of junk DNA misrepresent and distort the scientific literature. The same complaints ...
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Saturday, June 13, 2020

What's in Your Genome? Chapter 2: The Evolution of Sloppy Genomes

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I had to completely reorganize chapter 2 in order to move population genetics closer to the beginning of the book and reduce the number of w...

What's in Your Genome? Chapter 1: Introducing Genomes

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My book is progressing slowly. The main task is to reduce it to about 120,000 words and that's proving to be a lot more difficult that I...