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Tuesday, February 16, 2021

The 20th anniversary of the human genome sequence:
6. Nature doubles down on ENCODE results

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Nature has now published a series of articles celebrating the 20th anniversary of the publication of the draft sequences of the human genom...
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Friday, February 12, 2021

The 20th anniversary of the human genome sequence:
5. 90% of our genome is junk

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This is the fifth (and last) post in celebration of the 20th anniversary of publishing the draft sequence. The first four posts dealt with: ...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2021

The 20th anniversary of the human genome sequence:
4. Functional DNA in our genome

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We know a lot more about the human genome than we did when the draft sequences were published 20 years ago. One of the most important discov...
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Monday, February 08, 2021

The 20th anniversary of the human genome sequence: 3. How many genes?

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This week marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of the first drafts of the human genome sequence. Science choose to celebrate the a...
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Saturday, February 06, 2021

The 20th anniversary of the human genome sequence:
2. Finishing the sequence

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It's been 20 years since the first drafts of the human genome sequence were published. These first drafts from the International Human G...
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The 20th anniversary of the human genome sequence: 1. Access to the data and the complicity of Science

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The first drafts of the human genome sequence were published 20 years ago. The paper from the International Human Genome Project (IHGP) was ...
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Thursday, December 31, 2020

On the importance of controls

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When doing an exeriment, it's important to keep the number of variables to a minimum and it's important to have scientific controls ...
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Saturday, December 19, 2020

What do believers in epigenetics think about junk DNA?

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I've been writing some stuff about epigenetics so I've been reading papers on how to define the term [ What the heck is epigenetics?...
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Saturday, December 05, 2020

Mouse traps Michael Denton

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Michael Denton is a New Zealand biochemist, a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, and the author of two Intelligent Design Creationist...
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Tuesday, December 01, 2020

Of mice and Michael

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Michael Behe has published a book containing most of his previously published responses to critics. I was anxious to see how he dealt with m...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Using modified nucleotides to make mRNA vaccines

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The key features of the mRNA vaccines are the use of modified nucleotides in their synthesis and the use of lipid nanoparticles to deliver t...
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Sunday, November 15, 2020

Why is the Central Dogma so hard to understand?

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The Central Dogma of molecular biology states ... ... once (sequential) information has passed into protein it cannot get out again (F....
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020

On the misrepresentation of facts about lncRNAs

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I've been complaining for years about how opponents of junk DNA misrepresent and distort the scientific literature. The same complaints ...
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Wednesday, October 07, 2020

Undergraduate education in biology: no vision, no change

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I was looking at the Vision and Change document the other day and it made me realize that very little has changed in undergraduate educatio...
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Saturday, October 03, 2020

On the importance of random genetic drift in modern evolutionary theory

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The latest issue of New Scientist has a number of articles on evolution. All of them are focused on extending and improving the current the...
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