Wednesday, November 25, 2015

In defense of curiosity-motivated research

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I was prompted to write this post by three recent events. First, I read an article by Angelika Amon who made A case for more curiosity-drive...
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Support basic research with new leaders at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

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An important article in the Ottawa Citizen calls for the resignation of Alain Beaudet, recently reappointed President of the Canadian Instit...
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Intelligent design creationism and intellectual laziness

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I stumbled upon this 2005 letter to Nature by Michael Lynch and I thought I'd share it with you since it emphasizes one of my main pet ...
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Selfish genes and transposons

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Back in 1980, the idea that large fractions of animal and plant genomes could be junk was quite controversial. Although the idea was consist...
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Sunday, November 22, 2015

What do pseudogenes teach us about intelligent design?

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The human genome has about 14,000 pseudogenes that are derived from protein-coding genes and an unknown number derived from genes that speci...
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Friday, November 20, 2015

The truth about ENCODE

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A few months ago I highlighted a paper by Casane et al. (2015) where they said ... In September 2012, a batch of more than 30 articles pres...
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Different kinds of pseudogenes: Polymorphic pseudogenes

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There are three main kinds of pseudogenes: processed pseudogenes , duplicated pseudogenes , and unitary pseudogenes [ Different kinds of ps...
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Different kinds of pseudogenes: Unitary pseudogenes

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The most common types of pseudogenes are processed pseudogenes and those derived from gene duplication events [ duplicated pseudogenes ]. ...
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Different kinds of pseudgogenes: Duplicated pseudogenes

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Of the three different kinds of pseudogenes , the easiest kind of pseudogene formation to understand is simple gene duplication followed by ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Different kinds of pseudogenes: Processed pseudogenes

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Let's look at the formation of a "processed" pseudogene. They are called "processed" because they are derived from t...
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Different kinds of pseudogenes - are they really pseudogenes?

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I define a gene as "DNA sequence that is transcribed to produce a functional product" [ What Is a Gene? ]. Genes can encode protei...
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Saturday, November 14, 2015

Which animals have barely evolved according to National Geographic?

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Liz Langley of National Geographic has posted an article on their website: Which Animals Have Barely Evolved? . The answers are the platyp...
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Friday, November 13, 2015

Cornelius Hunter predicts that there's going to be function found for the vast majority of the genome according to the intelligent design paradigm

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Listen to this Podcast where Casey Luskin interviews Dr. Cornelius Hunter. 1 It's only 9 minutes long. Dr. Cornelius Hunter on ENCODE...
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The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: was the history of the discovery of DNA repair correct?

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... those ignorant of history are not condemned to repeat it; they are merely destined to be confused. Stephen Jay Gould Ontogeny and Phy...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Pwned by lawyers (not)

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A few days ago I mentioned a post by Barry Arrington where he said, " You Should Know the Basics of a Theory Before You Attack It . I p...
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