Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Decoding the Structure of the HIV Genome
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The title of the press release on Biology News Net caught my eye: UNC researchers decode structure of an entire HIV genome . I clicked th...
Censorship in the Scientific Community
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Richard Dawkins interviews Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America . You really have to watch this if you want to understand what scie...
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Monday's Molecule #132: Winner!
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This is a complex between parts of the T-cell receptor (green and blue) and the major histocompatibility complex class II molecule (MHC cl...
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Lateral Gene Transfer and the Return of Lamarckian Evolution
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Mark Buchanan believes that physics has entered a new era where it has gone beyond the fundamental forces into the realm of "collect...
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NIH and Francis Collins
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I wish that Obama had picked someone else as his nominee for Director of NIH. I'm not opposed to Collins simply because he is religiou...
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UCSC Official Mascot
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Fred Zlotnick took this picture of a banana slug in his back yard. Believe it or not, the banana slug is the official mascot of the Univer...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Is "Organic" Food Better for You than "Conventionally" Produced Food?
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The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has just completed a study of the scientific literature commissioned by the Food Standa...
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Land Snails and Slugs
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Most of us don't know very much about slugs and land snails but Christopher Taylor at Catalogue of Organisms is doing his best to edu...
Monday, August 03, 2009
Monday's Molecule #132
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This is a very famous molecular complex. You need to identify this complex by naming all the major components. You will not win if you ski...
Breakthrough!! The Third Replicator Is Discovered
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The editors at New Scientist have become completely incapable of distinguishing between science and things that pretend to be science. Th...
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Happy Simcoe Day!!
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Today is Simcoe Day in Toronto, a holiday named after John Graves Simcoe , the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (1791-1796). Ac...
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Free Health Care Clinic in a Country that Needs It
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Remote Area Medical (RAM) is a group of doctors, optometrists, dentists, nurses etc. who donate their time to setting up free temporary c...
An Educational Lunch
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Last week, before leaving for Halifax, I had lunch with David Schuller (a Monday's Molecule winner) and Deb Breiter. They were in town...
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Saturday, August 01, 2009
Perspectives on the Tree of Life: Day Two
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The second day began bright and early with a talk by Jeffrey Lawrence , professor of biology at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (PA...
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Friday, July 31, 2009
Perspectives on the Tree of Life: Day One
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The meeting began with a brief introduction by John Dupré. The first speaker was Ford Doolittle of the Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular B...
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