Sandwalk

Our genome is very large and very complicated because it is full of junk DNA. It contains thousand of sites where DNA binding proteins can b...

It is widely believed that a substantial amount of viral spread is due to individuals who are transmitting the virus but have no symptoms (a...

It was 68 years ago today that the famous Watson and Crick paper was published in Nature along with papers by Franklin & Gosling and Wi...

This is a really interesting video presentation by Dougla Axe, a leading proponent of Intelligent Design Creationism. He's criticizing t...

James A. Shapiro is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago (Chicago, USA). He mad...

Denis Noble was a Professor of Physiology at Oxford University in the United Kingdom until he retired. He had a distinguished career as a ph...

A remarkable paper has just been posted to a philosophy of science preprint website. (It will be published in Synthase .) Like many papers i...

I spent a lot of time explaining evolution in my book. The goal is to educate readers to the level where they can understand the drift-barri...

Rama Singh, 1 a biology professor at McMaster Universtiy in Hamilton (Ontario, Canada) has just published an interesting article on The Con...

The new mRNA vaccines are the result of extensive research over the past thirty years or so. They are marvels of technological innovation bu...

Several diseases, such as cancers, are caused by the presence of deleterious alleles that affect the function of a gene. In the case of canc...

After spending several years working on a book about the human genome I've come to the realization that the field of genomics is not del...

Opponents of junk DNA have been largely unsuccessful in demonstrating that most of our genome is functional. Many of them are vaguely aware ...

The first draft of my book is ready to be sent to my publisher. Text by Laurence A. Moran Cover art and figures by Gordon L. Moran ...

I just received an invitation to a meeting ... On behalf of the international organizing committee, we would like to invite you to a conf...