Sandwalk

I complain a lot about the quality of science writing but today's post is very different. I want to highlight an article by Michael Le P...

Today I did a Google search for the term "JUNK DNA" and, as usual, the first thing I saw was the Google AI description of junk DNA...

There is considerable controversy over the total number of genes in the human genome. The number of protein-coding genes is pretty well esta...

The current best model of the human genome is that only 10% is functional and 90% is junk. This model was first developed over half a centur...

If you align similar regions of the human and chimpanzee genomes they turn out to be about 98.6% identical in nucleotide sequence. The total...

90% of the human genome is junk DNA. Today I did a routine search for "junk DNA" "2025" to see if misinformation i...

I'm giving a talk next Wednesday (October 1st) to the members of the Senior College (retired faculty). It's at the University of Tor...

A recent paper on characterizing endogenous retrovirus sequences has attracted some attention because of a press release from Kyoto Universi...

The seven traits that Gregor Mendel worked with were: seed shape (R/r), cotyledon color (I/i), seed and flower color (A/a), pod shape (V/v...

At the end of last year (2024) I posted an article about distinguished molecular biologist William Hasletine who published an article in Fo...

The transcripts of some genes can be alternatively spliced to produce more than one biologically functional product (e.g. proteins). There a...

Last night I attended a talk by Chris DiCarlo who warned us about the dangers of AI. I'm sure he's right to be worried but I'm s...

Theme Mutation -definition -mutation types -mutation rates -phylogeny -controversies There are three ways of estimating the human m...

This is a podcast in French on the topic of junk DNA. The moderator is Thomas C. Durand of La Tronche en Biais , a YouTube channel that focu...

Here's a list of the current Trump tariffs taken from Wikpedia . It's important to remember that there's a 10% tariff on every c...