Sandwalk

Here's a recent video podcast (Aug. 23, 1022) from the Institute for Creation Research (sic). It features an interview with Dr. Jeff To...

ENCODE has mostly abandoned it's definition of function based on biochemical activity and replaced it with "candidate" functio...

The Wikipedia article on the Human genome contained a reference that I had not seen before. "Finally DNA that is deleterious to th...

A recent paper in Nature claims that 75% of synonymous mutations reduce fitness in yeast. The results were challenged (refuted?) ten weeks ...

NPR tweeted out a summary of the new CDC (United States) guidelines on COVID-19. The figure was posted under the name of Dr. Marcus Plescia,...

There has been an enormous expansion of papers on cancer and many of them make a connection with a particular human gene. A recent note in T...

The most important issue in alternative splicing, in my opinion, is whether splice variants are due to splicing errors (= junk RNA) or wheth...

Just before getting banned from Wikipedia , I was about to deal with a claim on the Intergenic region article. I had already fixed most of ...

My account on Wikipedia has been blocked by some editor named Bbb23 after receiving a complaint from another editor named Praxidicae . Prax...

I used to think that Wikipedia was a pretty good source of information even for scientific subjects. It wasn't perfect, but most of the ...

We've known for more than half-a-century that a lot of noncoding DNA is functional. Why are some people still surprised? It's a puzz...

Functional DNA is best defined as DNA that is currently under purifying selection. In other words, it can't be deleted without affecting...

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...