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  Friday's Urban Legend: FALSE The following email message is going the rounds in Canada. Of course it's a favorite of the right-wi...

  Pseudogenes are non-functional DNA sequences that resemble genes. Much of the DNA related to transposable elements falls into this categor...

In a previous posting I talked about Long Interspersed Elements or LINEs [ Junk in Your Genome: LINEs ]. These are retrotransposons that ma...

  From Horton et al. (2006), pp. 663-665. Many genes are expressed in every cell. The expression of these housekeeping genes is said to be c...

Junk in Your Genome Transposable Elements: (44% junk)       DNA transposons:          active (functional): <0.1%          defectiv...

  Janet Stemwedel has put her finger on an important issue. Read her blog and find out about The project of being a grown-up scientist (part...

  It's that time of year again. TV Ontario (TVO) has chosen its ten finalists for best university lecturer. you can see the list on the ...

  SEED magazine is usually a pretty good magazine in spite of the fact that they get a few things wrong and in spite of the fact that they s...

  The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1965. "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis"...

  Gods Behaving Badly is a new book by Marie Phillips. It was just reviewed in the New York Times [ The House of Myth ]. Here's a teas...

  Quite a few science bloggers were shocked at a paper that appeared recently in the journal Proteomics —a respectable journal up 'till...

  Joshua Lederberg died last Saturday (Feb. 2, 2008). In his honor, John Dennehy has selected one of Lederberg's famous papers as This W...

  The latest issue of Tangled Bank is #98. It's hosted by Steve Matheson at Quintessence of Dust [ Tangled Bank #98 ]. Hey! Welcome to...

François Jacob won the Nobel Prize in 1965 for his work on the lac operon. He is also known for his thoughts on evolution, especially the c...

  This is a new term to me. It was used over on simra.net in reference to the attempt by students at Wilfred Laurier University to dictate ...