Sandwalk

It was 70 years ago today that the famous Watson and Crick paper was published in Nature along with papers by Franklin & Gosling and Wi...

I asked ChatGPT some questions about junk DNA and it made up a Francis Crick quotation and misrepresented the view of Susumu Ohno. We h...

The antarctic krill genome is the largest animal genome sequenced to date. Antarctic krill ( Euphausia superba ) is a species of smal...

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to understand the scientific literature even in subjects that I've been following for decades....

The endorsements for my book are in. One of the last steps in publishing a book is to collect endorsements—favorable statements from f...

The correct definition of a molecular gene isn't difficult but getting it recognized and accepted is a different story. When writi...

The initial measurement of the difference between the human and chimp genomes was based on aligning 2.4 billion base pairs in the two ...

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicne went to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and huma...

There's an old saying that birds of a feather flock together. It means that people with the same interests tend to associate with each o...

Several people have commented on Facebook about an interview with Matthew Cobb [ Reflections on the Double Helix's Platinum Anniversary ...

C. David Allis died on January 8, 2023. You can read about his history of awards and accomplishments in the Nature obituary with the provo...

Wikipedia is a not-for-profit crowdsourced encyclopedia that's open to anybody who wants to contribute. This is both a strength and a we...

Charles Darwin , the greatest scientist who ever lived, was born on this day in 1809 [ Darwin still spurs tributes, debates ] [ Happy Darwin...

The last few weeks have been hectic. I got the first page proofs about a month ago and my job was to proof read those pages and prepare the ...

My 9th great grandfather is John Banks (1619-1685) who was born in Essex (England) and moved to the colony of Connecticut in 1634. He marrri...