Sandwalk

                                    Strolling with a skeptical biochemist

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Philip Ball's view of alternative splicing

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Genomics is a powerful tool that allows you to collect massive amounts of data that can point the way to new understanding. But it can also ...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Zach Hancock's 10 most influential papers on evolution

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Zach Hancock is a postdoc in the Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. He has a popular YouTube channel ...
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Saturday, October 26, 2024

Three lungfish species have huge genomes

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Lungfish are our closest living fish cousins. All living terrestrial vertebrates (e.g. amphibians, mammals, reptiles) descent from a common ...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Santi Garcia-Vallvé reviews my book

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Santi Garcia-Vallvé has reviewed my book in the journal Mètode . It's written in Catalan but Santi was kind enough to send me a transla...

Philip Ball doesn't understand sloppy genomes

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... anything found to be true of E.coli must also be true of Elephants.                                                          Jacques ...
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Nobel Laureate: Vincent du Vigneaud

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955 "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a p...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Monday's Molecule #244

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You can use whatever tricks you want to identify today's molecule but I'll be really impressed with anyone who recognizes it right a...

Philip Ball strikes back

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Philip Ball believes that we are in the middle of a revolution in our way of thinking about how life works. His ideas are complex but part o...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Nobel Laureates Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1985 "for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism" M...
Monday, October 14, 2024

Monday's Molecule #243

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Today's molecule is quite complicated. It's the extracellular domain of a membrane protein. 2 You can use whatever tricks you want ...
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Friday, October 11, 2024

Philip Ball says RNA may rule our genome

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Philip Ball is on a roll. He has published a new book plus several articles in popular magazines and he has appeared in a bunch of podcasts...
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Wednesday, October 09, 2024

Nobel Laureate: Aziz Sancar

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015. “for mechanistic studies of DNA repair” Aziz Sancar won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his ...
Monday, October 07, 2024

Monday's Molecule #242

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It's been a while since the last Monday's Molecule on May 19, 2014 but I think it's time to revive that tradition. I'll show...
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