Sandwalk

I highly recommend this brief editorial by Naruya Saitou: "Chance, Finiteness, and History" (Saitou, 2018). Saitou is a strong pro...

John Mattick is the most prominent defender of the idea that the human genome is full of functional sequences. In fact, he is just about the...

I've been talking to philosophers lately about the true state of the junk DNA controversy. I imagine what it would be like to stage a g...

I just learned about a workshop scheduled for the end of this month. The topic is: Evolutionary Roles of Transposable Elements and Non-codin...

A friend has a neighbor who's in possession of a pamphlet from 1863 on the Owen vs Huxley debate. The text of the pamphlet is here: A Re...

The three main human databases (GENCODE/Ensembl, RefSeq, UniProtKB) contain a total of 22,210 protein-coding genes but only 19,446 of these ...

Nature is arguably the most prestigious science journal. Articles published in Nature are widely perceived to be correct, unbiased, and fa...

Several readers alerted me to a paper that was posted on bioRxiv a few weeks ago (May 28, 2018). The paper claimed that the human genome co...

Press releases have become a serious problem. I'm frequently upset whenever I read a press release covering a field I'm familiar wit...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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