Sandwalk

Telomeres are repetitive DNA sequences at the ends of chromosomes. In humans, the repeat sequence is TTAGGG. The purpose of telomeres is to ...

The Occupy for Palestine protestors have occupied part of the campus of the University of Toronto. The protestors are making two demands on ...

Here's a link to the junk DNA debate between Dan Stern Cardinale and Casey Luskin. The debate took place on May 2, 2024. ...

On Thursday May 2, 2024, Casey Luskin and Dan Stern Cardinale debated junk DNA on the YouTube channel "The NonSequitor Show." Davi...

Intelligent Design Creationists are heavily invested in refuting junk DNA because it casts doubt on their model of an intelligently designed...

Today is the 50th anniversary of my Ph.D. oral defense. The event took place in the Department of Biochemical Sciences at Princeton Universi...

The "All of Us Research Program" is an American effort to sequence one million genomes. The stated goal is to study human genetic ...

I'm a retired member of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. For many decades researchers here have been complaining th...

Should universities remove online courses that contain incorrect or misleading information? There are lots of scientific controversies...

China has become a science powerhouse and it achieved this goal, in part, by sending its young scientitsts abroad to train in universities i...

Paul Nelson is a Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute—the most important source of intelligent design propaganda. Paul and I have been d...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! These are my great-grandparents Thomas Keys Foster, born in County Tyrone on September 5, 1852 and Eliza Ann Jo...

I've been reading Philip Ball's book on "How Life Works" and I find it increasingly frustrating because he consistently de...

I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is arguing against junk DNA by claiming that the human genome ...

I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is arguing against junk DNA by claiming that the human genome ...