Sandwalk

In Debating alternative splicing (Part III) I discussed a review published in the February 2017 issue of Trends in Biochemical Sciences . T...

Proponents of massive alternative splicing argue that most human genes produce many different protein isoforms. According to these scientist...

Mammalian genomes are very large. It looks like 90% of it is junk DNA. These genomes are pervasively transcribed, meaning that almost 90% of...

I recently had a chance to talk science with my old friend and colleague Jack Greenblatt . He has recently teamed up with some of my other c...

The ongoing debate over junk DNA often revolves around data collected by ENCODE and others. The idea that most of our genome is transcribed ...

Watch this video. It dates from this year. Almost everything Wells says is either false or misleading. Why? Is he incapable of learning abou...

Some of my former students were able to come to my retirement reception yesterday: Sean Blaine (left), Anna Gagliardi, Marc Perry.

I love hot "cross" buns but now we buy the atheist version.

... but it was a rather special book ...

Most of the human genome is transcribed at some time or another in some tissue or another. The phenomenon is now known as pervasive transcri...

New genes can arise by gene duplication. These events are quite common on an evolutionary time scale. In the current human population, for e...

Austin Hughes (1949 - 2015) died a few years ago. He was one of my favorite evolutionary biologists. Chase Nelson has written a nice summa...

A long time ago I used to belong to the Royal Astronomical Society (amateur astronomers) in Ottawa (Canada). That's me on the right with...

Today is anniversary of D-Day—the day British, Canadian, and American troops landed on the beaches of Normandy. 1 For baby boomers it mea...

Here's an interview with Stephen Meyer on the Evolution 2.0 website: Stephen Meyer Debates Perry Marshall – Intelligent Design vs. Evol...