Sandwalk

Most of our genome is transcribed but so far only a small number of these transcripts have a well-established biological function. The...

A new master's thesis on the history of junk DNA has been posted. It's from the Department of History at the University of Chicago. ...

The most important step in the regulation of protein-coding genes in E. coli is the rate of binding of RNA polymerase to the promoter regio...

Don't bother trying to reason with a publisher. All of them have different views on proper style and every single one of them is absolut...

There's a lot of talk about ChatGPT and how it can prepare lectures and get good grades on undergraduate exams. However, ChatGPT is only...

Some evolutionary biologists think—incorrectly, in my opinion—that molecular biology has made no contributions to our understanding of evolu...

New techniques are being developed to obtain the complete sequences of both copies (maternal and paternal) of a typical diploid individual. ...

Students in a special topics course at the University of Michigan were taught how to edit a Wikipedia article in order to promote function i...

A friend recently posted a figure on Facebook that instructs authors in the correct way to prepare a summary paragraph (abstract) for public...

So many books ... so little time.

In spite of what you might have read, the human genome does not contain one million functional enhancers. The Sept. 15, 2022 issue of ...

Graduate students, postdocs, and other "academic workers" are on strike for higher wages and better working conditions at Universi...

I discuss a recent editorial in Science that advocates expanding university education in order to prepare students for jobs. I believe ...

I just read an annoying article in Boston Review: The Inflated Promise of Science Education . It was written by Catarina Dutilh Novaes, a Pr...

Nature Methods is one of the journals in Nature Portfolio published by Springer Nature. Its focus is novel methods in the life sciences. ...