Sandwalk

There's a shuttle bus that runs between my hotel in Boston and the convention center where Experimental Biology takes place. I went down...

I'm at the Experimental Biology meetings in Boston and yesterday I dropped into a session on "Training the Mind of an Interdiscipli...

A recent issue of Nature contains a report on plant micro-RNAs (Lauressergues et al., 2015). The authors found that certain genes for plant...

Students in my molecular evolution course have to write an essay. They can pick any topic they like as long as it's related to evolution...

The genetic code is redundant. Many amino acids have multiple codons ranging from two to six. The different codons for the same amino acid a...

There was a short article in a recent issue of Science that caught my eye. The title was " Statistics requantitates the central dogma ...

Mary Lyon died on Christmas day last December. She was 89 years old. She was a famous mouse geneticist who spend most of her working care...

Double-stranded DNA forms a helical structure where the two strands are twisted into a helical shape. If you think of the base pairs forming...

Conrad Black , also known as Baron Black of Crossharbour, KSG, was stimulated by a conversation with Christian apologist, and physicist, Joh...

I really hate it when publishers start to hype a book several months before we can read it, especially when the topic is controversial. In t...

It's always fun to be quoted in The New York Times Magazine but there's a more serious issue to discuss. I'm referring to a bri...

Richard Lenski has a blog called Telliamed Revisited . He's been answering questions about his long-term evolution experiment and the la...

Stephen Moore is an conservative economist who writes for the Wall Street Journal . Here's a quote from the Wikipedia article ... In a...

John Lennox is a mathematician from Oxford (UK). He likes to attack the so-called "new atheists" and defend the idea that Christia...

Last week I asked an important question, " Is it impossible to educate Intelligent Design Creationists on evolutionary theory? . The ...