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This is a story about misleading press releases. The spread of misinformation by press offices is a serious issue that needs to be addressed...

Wikipedia has an article on the Human genome . The introduction includes the following statement, Human genomes include both protein-c...

I'm a big fan of Kat Arney and I loved her 2016 book Herding Hemingway's Cats where she interviews a number of prominent scientists...

It's theoretically possible that the presence of abundant transposon fragments in a genome could provide a clade with a selective advant...

The important issue is whether alternative splicing is ubiquitous or rare. What are the evolutionary implications? I believe that al...

The classic Modern Synthesis is effectively dead. It was replaced by a more modern version that includes Neutral Theory, Nearly-Neutral Theo...

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...