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Friday, May 18, 2018

Is lateral gene transfer (LGT) Lamarckian?

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There's an interesting discussion going on about lateral gene transfer (LGT) in eukaryotes. LGT is the process by which DNA from one spe...
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Thursday, May 10, 2018

Fixing carbon by reversing the citric acid cycle

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The citric acid cycle 1 is usually taught as depicted in the diagram on the right. 2 A four-carbon compound called oxaloaceate is joined t...
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Philosophers talking about genes

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It's important to define what you mean when you use the word "gene." I use the molecular definition since most of what I write...
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Saturday, April 07, 2018

Required reading for the junk DNA debate

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This is a list of scientific papers on junk DNA that you need to read (and understand) in order to participate in the junk DNA debate. It...
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Friday, April 06, 2018

I'm going to a birthday party!

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It's Bruce Alberts' 80th birthday party in San Francisco. There will be food, wine, cake, and (probably) dancing but first you go t...

Cafe Scientific Mississauga: The Good, Bad, & Natural

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Dan Riskin: The Good, Bad, & Natural: What Mother Nature says about morality? Thursday, April 12, 2018 7:30 - 10:00 pm The Franklin...
Thursday, April 05, 2018

Subhash Lakhotia: The concept of 'junk DNA' becomes junk

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Continuing my survey of recent papers on junk DNA, I stumbled upon a review by Subash Lakhotia that has recently been accepted in The Procee...
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Peter Larsen: "There is no such thing as 'junk DNA'"

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The March 2018 issue of Chromosome Research is a Special Issue on Transposable Elements and Genome Function . I found it as I was doing my ...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

What's In Your Genome? - The Pie Chart

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Here's my latest compilation of the composition of the human genome. It's depicted in the form of a pie chart. 1 [ UPDATED: March 2...
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Sunday, March 18, 2018

What is "dark DNA"?

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Some DNA sequencing technologies aren't very good at sequencing and assembling DNA that's rich in GC base pairs. What this means is ...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Making Sense of Genes by Kostas Kampourakis

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Kostas Kampourakis is a specialist in science education at the University of Geneva, Geneva (Switzerland). Most of his book is an argument a...
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Monday, March 12, 2018

Is evolutionary psychology a deeply flawed enterprise?

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We were discussing the field of evolutionary psychology at our local cafe scientific meeting last week. The discussion was prompted by watch...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2018

Can the Dunning-Kruger effect be reversed?

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect was first proposed in a classic 1999 paper (Kruger and Dunning, 1999). 1 People suffering from this effect show ...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Junk DNA and selfish DNA

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Selfish DNA is a term that became popular with the publication of a series of papers in Nature in 1980. The authors were referring to virus...
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Sunday, February 18, 2018

Human genome books

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Theme Genomes & Junk DNA I'm trying to read all the recent books on the human genome and anything related. There are a lot of them...
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