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There's something called "the EDIT lab blog" written by people at King's College In London (UK). Here's a recent post ...

If you are interested in learning more about junk DNA here's some links to relevant information. Prologue Chapter 1: Introducin...

We had a good time talking about junk DNA, alternative splicing, and science misinformation.

Zach Hancock has posted another YouTube video. This one is about the evolution of genomic complexity. Have you ever wondered why eukaryotic ...

Shapiro doubles down on his claim that junk DNA doesn't exist. It's been a while since we've heard from James Shaprio. You...

Gert Korthof thinks that the current view of evolution is incomplete and he's looking for a better explanation. He just finished readin...

In last chapter of my book I try to convince readers that biochemistry, molecular biology, and evolution are sloppy processes and the idea o...

Francis Collins, and many others, believe that the concept of junk DNA is outmoded because recent discoveries have shown that most of the hu...

In September 2012, the ENCODE researchers published a bunch of papers claiming to show that 80% of the human genome was functional. They hel...

I think there are no more than 5,000 noncoding genes but many scientists claim that there are tens of thousands of newly discovered noncodin...

This chapter describes gene families in the human genome. I explain how new genes are born by gene duplication and how they die by deletion ...

Here's a link to the summary of what's in Chapter 6. The important topics are the correct definition of "gene" and the num...

Here's a link to a summary of what's in Chapter 5. It lists the main components of the human genome and concludes that less than 10%...

Chapter 4: Why Don't Mutations Kill Us?

See Chapter 3: Repetitive DNA and Mobile Genetic Elements