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  Theme Blood Clotting March 26, 2007 Monday's Molecule #19 . Warfarin—an anticoagulant and a rat poison. March 27, 2007 Vitamin K . Vit...

  Monday's Molecule #44 is signal recognition particle or SRP. The figure is a model of SRP (red) bound to a ribosome at the exit site ...

  This is the winner in the Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting icon contest [ … And the winner is … ]. We're not supposed to ...

  Alex Palazzo has a wonderful and very complete list of potential Nobel Prize winners [ Gaze into the crystal ball - Nobel Prize Gossip ]. ...

  Janet Stemwedel is about to submit her tenure dossier. She describes the process and the dossier on Adventures in Ethics and Science [ A ...

One of the most persistent myths of evolutionary biology is that random genetic drift only occurs in small populations. You'll find this...

  We often talk about Random Genetic Drift on Sandwalk. Here's a handy-dandy simulator to help you understand the concept [ Genetic Dri...

  There are many adaptationists who recognize that random genetic drift exists. They will, when pressed, admit that neutral alleles can be f...

  The 15th edition of Gene Genie has just been published on Neurophilosophy [ Gene Genie #16 ]. There are several articles on personal geno...

  UPDATE: We have a winner. See comments. Today's molecule (in red) is part of a larger complex. There are two view of this complex in ...

  Tomorrow President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran will speak at Columbia University. There are some who argue that universities should not in...

  Skeptico reports that Merck has just pulled a new AIDs drig because tests were showing that it didn't work [ When will CAM do this? ]...

  Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is a bit unusual. It shows a time in the distant future when I'll be able to drive from Toro...

  Jena is a small town in Louisiana. It was named for Jena in Germany, the site of a famous victory by Napoleon in 1806. I'm a (very ama...

  The Committee on Culture, Science and Education of the Parliamentary Assembly, Council of Europe has issued a report on The dangers of cre...