Sandwalk

This is the game my son, Gordon Moran, and his friends at IronOak Games are developing. Please send him lots of money when Kickstarter is ac...

The draft sequence of the human genome was published in 2001. The "finished" version was published a few years later but annotatio...

I don't think scientific journals or scientific organizations should take a position on the conflict between science and religion but th...

Of the Five Things You Should Know if You Want to Participate in the Junk DNA Debate , the most difficult to explain is "Modern Evoluti...

David Klinghoffer writes at Evolution News & Views (sic): In The New Yorker, Tom Wolfe Compares Persecution of Intelligent Design Advoc...

If you were to line up all the DNA molecules from all the individuals in all the species on Earth, how long would it be? This is a kind of ...

I'm re-reading The Inside Story edited by Jan Witkowski, the former editor-in-chief of Trends in Biochemical Sciences (TIBS). The book...

I was doing some reading on lncRNAs (long non-coding RNAs) in order to find out how many of them had been assigned real biological functions...

Here's a video from Oxford Press where you can hear John Parrington describe some of the ideas in his book: The Deeper Genome: Why there...

John Parrington has written a book called, The Deeper Genome: Why there is more to the human genome than meets the eye . He claims that most...

We are discussing Five Things You Should Know if You Want to Participate in the Junk DNA Debate and how they are described in John Parringt...

We are continuing our discussion of John Parrington's book The Deeper Genome: Why there is more to the human genome than meets the eye ....

We are discussing John Parrington's book The Deeper Genome: Why there is more to the human genome than meets the eye . This is the secon...

It's frustrating to see active scientists who think that most of our genome could have a biological function but who seem to be complete...

We are discussing John Parrington's book The Deeper Genome: Why there is more to the human genome than meets the eye . This is the first...