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Nessa Carey wrote a horribe book about junk DNA where she completely misunderstood the science. It's one of many examples of bad science...

Here's a paper that has recently been posted on the preprint server bioRxiv. Nurk et al. (2021) The complete sequence of a human gen...

Chinese scientists isolated virus particles from a patient admitted to hospital on December 26, 2019 in Wuhan, China. The RNA genome was seq...

Richard ("Rick") Young is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Whitehead Insti...

The origin of SARS-Cov-2 is a hot topic these days. As far as I can tell, the consensus view among the experts is that the ancestor is from ...

Emily Mortola and Manyuan Long have just published an article in American Scientist about Turning Junk into Us: How Genes Are Born . The ar...

There's been a lot of talk about the possibility that SAR-CoV-2 originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology and accidentally escaped, ...

Nicholas Wade used to be a serious science writer but he lost that title many years ago when he proved that he was incapable of distinguish...

It was just a few weeks ago that I discussed short articles by Denis Noble and James Shapiro that were published in the journal Biosemiotics...

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...