Sandwalk

I had a long chat with Kat Arney a few weeks ago and she has now taken the best parts of that conversation and put them in her latest Geneti...

The phrase "dark matter of the genome" is used by scientists who are skeptical of junk DNA so they want to convey the impression t...

That's part of the title of podcast by Kat Arney who interviews Matthew Cobb [ Double helix double crossing? What really happened betwee...

The November 16th issue of Nature has an article about ChatGPT: ChatGPT has entered the classroom: how LLMs could transform education . It ...

Science in School is a magazine for European science teachers. Two graduate students 1 have just published an article in the November issu...

I wondered whether ChatGPT had improved in the last six months so I asked it again about junk DNA. The answers reveal that ChatGPT is still ...

Raphaël Champeimont has a blog called The Purple Blog: Freedom and Technology . His latest post is called The great Pufferfish Genome and i...

A junk-filled genome Review of: What’s In Your Genome? 90% of Your Genome Is Junk, by Laurence A. Moran, 2023. University of Toronto Pre...

I know Stephen Meyer and I have discussed his views on creationism many times. Some of the issues he raises are quite interesting and they a...

The Zoonomia project aligned the genome sequences of 240 mammalian species and determined that only 10.7% of the human genome is conserved. ...

There are a million potential transcription regulatory sites in the human genome. How many of these function as true regulatory sites? ...

Most of the genes in eukaryotes contain introns that are removed by splicing during processing of the primary transcript. In some cases the ...

The latest summary of the number of genes in the human genome gets the number of protein-coding genes correct but their estimate of the numb...

Jonathan McLatchie is an Intelligent Design Creationist who now blogs frequently on the Discovery website Evolution News [ sic ]. His lates...

Evelyn Fox Keller died a few days ago (Sept. 22, 2023). She was a professor of History and Philosopher of Science at the Massachusetts Inst...