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Read it at" Genetics: We are the 98% . Here's the important bit ... Finally, Junk DNA , like the genome, is crammed with repetitio...

Nessa Carey is a science writer with a Ph.D. in virology and she is a former Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology at Imperial College, Lond...

There's some controversy over the rate of mutations in humans. The latest summary comes from science journalist Ewen Callaway, a Senior ...

The first video was posted to YouTube on April 23, 2005 [see YouTube ]. I took this photo (right) a few years ago near my daughter's pla...

Razib Khan is an adaptationist and he's discovered a paper that gets him very excited: Selectionism Strikes Back! . Here's the pap...

Shortly after being elected last Fall, the new Mayor of Mississauga, Bonnie Crombie , decided that the City Council would continue to say a ...

Austin Booth and Ford Doolittle have just published a paper that discusses the origin of eukaryotes (Austin and Doolittle, 2015). They point...

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that prayers at the opening of city council meetings are not consistent with a secular society [ Quebe...

I'm interested in science education in general and teaching biochemistry and molecular biology in particular. A recent publication in PL...

Bonnie Prescott is a Senior Science Writer at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School. She has written a press r...

James Lunney has quit the Conservative Party of Canada and decided not to run in the next federal election. He's upset because he doesn...

Some of you may recall James Lunney, Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Nanaimo-Alberni in British Columbia. He's a chiropracto...

Edward Lanphier, Fyodor Urnov, Sarah Ehlen Haecker, Michael Werner and Joanna Smolenski have published a comment in Nature with a provocati...

I looked forward to this "conversation" because I was already familiar with Denis Noble and his strange views of evolution [ A ph...

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