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I'm very disappointed in scientists and philosophers who try to defend ENCODE's behavior on the grounds that they were using a legit...

Stefan Linquist is a philosopher at the University of Guelph (Guelph, Ontario, Canada). He recently published a paper on function that I di...

The authors of a recent paper think we need a new term "spam DNA" to describe some features of the human genome. Fagundes, N.J....

How much of the human genome is functional? This a problem that will be solved by biochemists not epistemologists. What is junk DNA? Wha...

I just stumbled upon an opinion piece published in EMBO Reports on May 22, 2022. The author is Frank Gannon who is identified as the forme...

Manolis Kellis is a professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Sandwalk readers will remember him a...

Today is the 78th anniversary of D-Day—the day British, Canadian, and American troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in World War II. 1 ...

I've been trying to fix the Wikipedia artilce on Noncoding DNA but it's quite a challenge because the page is controlled by editors...

Here's a link to a short podcast on non-coding DNA narrated by Shurjo K. Sen, Program Director, Divison of Genome Sciences. This is the...

I decided to edit the Wikipedia article on non-coding DNA by adding new sections on "Noncoding genes," "Promoters and regula...

A hard-hitting review will be published in Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics . It shows that the case for large numbers of functi...

The new complete human genome sequence gives us a first-time look at the structures of human centromeres. This is my sixth post on the c...

The new complete human genome sequence adds an extra 8% of DNA sequence that's a source of variation in the human population. The sequen...

How can different molecular biologists have such opposite views of the history of their field? I'm posting links to two papers wit...

A detailed examination of the new complete human genome reveals that 54% of it consists of various repetitive elements. Some of them are tra...