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Triose phosphate isomerase (TIM) is one of the enzymes in the gluconeogenesis pathway leading to the synthesis of glucose from simple precu...

It's been about twenty years since Intelligent Design Creationism rose to prominence. Just last week the Center for Science and Culture ...

I came across this paper while doing research on alternative splicing. The introduction annoyed me. It illustrates what to my mind are some ...

ScienceDebate.org is a group that wants a "science" debate between Presidential candidates in the upcoming American election. That...

Some of us have been debating Intelligent Design Creationists for many years. Some of us have even visited the creationist blogs like Uncomm...

Thanks to PZ Myers for digging up this speech by Mike Pence in the House of Representatives [ Mike Pence, creationist ]. I think Pence is tr...

Not all academics are bad writers but the exceptions are few and far between. Several recent articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education ...

The latest issue of the journal Science (Aug. 1, 2016) has an article on a recent paper by Aires et al. (2016) published in Developmental ...

There are lots of things wrong with Mukherjee's best-selling book The Gene . I've listed a few things that I know about [ What is a ...

My friend and colleague, Alex Palazzo, alerted me to an interview of Bill Martin published in the July 11, 2016 issue of Current Biology [...

There's an article about junk DNA in the latest issue of New Scientist (July 27, 2016) [ You are junk: Why it’s not your genes that mak...

There's an article about junk DNA in the latest issue of New Scientist . The title is: You are junk: Why it’s not your genes that make y...

I wish people would stop referring to "THE" Theory of Evolution. What they really mean, of course, is "The Theory of Natural ...

Here's an interesting article about the biggest problems in (American) science: The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 ...

Today is the Fête Nationale in France known also as "le quatorze juillet" or Bastille Day . This is the day in 1789 when French ci...