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Richard Dawkins has written an essay for The Spectator in which he says, "[Science is not] a social construct. It’s simply true. Or a...

Nature has now published a series of articles celebrating the 20th anniversary of the publication of the draft sequences of the human genom...

This is the fifth (and last) post in celebration of the 20th anniversary of publishing the draft sequence. The first four posts dealt with: ...

We know a lot more about the human genome than we did when the draft sequences were published 20 years ago. One of the most important discov...

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of the first drafts of the human genome sequence. Science choose to celebrate the a...

It's been 20 years since the first drafts of the human genome sequence were published. These first drafts from the International Human G...

The first drafts of the human genome sequence were published 20 years ago. The paper from the International Human Genome Project (IHGP) was ...

When doing an exeriment, it's important to keep the number of variables to a minimum and it's important to have scientific controls ...

I've been writing some stuff about epigenetics so I've been reading papers on how to define the term [ What the heck is epigenetics?...

Michael Denton is a New Zealand biochemist, a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, and the author of two Intelligent Design Creationist...

Michael Behe has published a book containing most of his previously published responses to critics. I was anxious to see how he dealt with m...

The key features of the mRNA vaccines are the use of modified nucleotides in their synthesis and the use of lipid nanoparticles to deliver t...

The Central Dogma of molecular biology states ... ... once (sequential) information has passed into protein it cannot get out again (F....

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

I was looking at the Vision and Change document the other day and it made me realize that very little has changed in undergraduate educatio...