Sandwalk

Here are a few questions for ChatGPT and its answers. The AI program takes the most common information on the web and spews it back at you. ...

Check out this website, What's in Your Genome if you want to see a preview of my book (Preface, Prologue, part of Chapter 1). The ...

New names for very large and very small weights and sizes have been adopted. Last November's meeting of the General Conference on ...

In order to have a productive discussion about junk DNA we needed to agree on how to define "function" and "junk." Disag...

Scientists have recently developed an mRNA-lipid nanoparticle flu vaccine that protects against all known flu variants. There are four typ...

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.