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Creationists in general, and Intelligent Design Creationists in particular, feel very threatened by the idea that most of our genome is junk...

Last week's molecules (right) [ Monday's Molecule #237 ] were α-D-glucopyranosyl-(1➝4)-β-D-glucopyranose, the β anomer of maltose an...

I'm in San Diego (California, USA) attending Experimental Biology 2014 (EB2014). This is a large meeting of several differnent societies...

Theme Better Biochemistry The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) has decided that the best way to teach under...

Theme Better Biochemistry The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) has decided that the best way to teach under...

Sometimes you just want to throw up your hands and say something very rude. This is one of those times. Salvador Cordova is trying to expl...

The faculty at most Canadian universities are unionized. Faculty unions are important for negotiating fair salaries and benefits but they pl...

Last week's molecules (above) [ Monday's Molecule #236 ] were the stereoisomers of L-threonine (D-threonine, L-allotheronine, and D-...

A few Intelligent Design Creationists are beginning to learn about evolution. A few days ago, I speculated about what would happen if they r...

I stumbled across an article in Science & Education that caught my eye. The authors discuss the way genetics is taught in introductory ...

Branko Kozulic has asked me to post some additional comments. I'm happy to do so since it reflects a sincere attempt to learn about evol...

Branko Kozulic has asked me to post his reply to Branko Kozulic has questions about fixation . My policy is to post letters like this withou...

This one is from five years ago, reposted today at eggs2 .

There's an interesting phenomenon taking place over on one of the main Intelligent Design Creationist websites. It started when a philos...

Branko Kozulic is trying to understand how so many neutral alleles could be fixed in the human and chimpanzee populations (species) over the...