Sandwalk

It's been almost three years since I created a blog post on What is the "dark matter of the genome"? . I noted that the term w...

I recently came across a paper in Nature on alternate RNA decoding. It looked interesting so I read the abstract. That didn't help. I w...

Eclipsed Horizons: Unveiling the Darfk Genome is a book by Sudhakaran Prabakaran that promotes the idea of a dark genome and challenges the...

We visited Tofino on the west coast of Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada). We took a seaplane from Vanvouver harbor to the harbor i...

Intelligent Design Creationists have convinced themselves that there's no junk DNA in the human genome. They predicted this more than 30...

The best scenario for the origin of life is that it first arose in hydrothermal vents deep in the ocean. The first catalysts of metabolic re...

Amgen Inc. is a major pharmaceutical company based in Thousand Oaks, California (USA). [ Wikipedia: Amgen ] It was founded in 1980 to exploi...

Most of us were taught that plants are the main source of fixing carbon from carbon dioxide. Some of us even had to memorize the enzymes and...

There are about 20,000 protein-coding genes in the human genome. We'd like to know what all these genes are doing but the only way to fi...

We all know that scientists at elite universities publish a lot more papers than scientists at other universities. Why is that? Is it becaus...

Most of the DNA in the human genome is transcribed at some point in development or in some cell type. This fact has been known since the l...

There is considerable debate in the scientific literature over the amount of junk DNA in the human genome. The standard model was developed ...

This is weird. I was a bit bored so I asked Gemini the following question: "What is the difference between junk DNA and non-coding DNA?...

There are somewhat less than 25,000 genes in the human genome and there are probably about the same number of pseudogenes. Pseudogenes are...

Can modern biologists get along with modern philosphers of biology? James DiFrisco and Steven Orzack think they can and they have suggestion...