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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Nobel Laureate: Sir Robert Robinson
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1947. "for his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids"...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Mendel's Garden #21
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The 21st version of Mendel's Garden has just been posted on The Inoculated Mind [ Mendel’s Garden #21: Old DNA never dies… ]. Welcome...
Stop the Press - Genes Have Regulatory Sequences!
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You heard it here first—well, not exactly. The breaking news was first reported over at Biology News Net . Junk DNA isn't junk at all ...
The False Icon of Progressive Evolution
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Elaine Warburton of Genetics & Health has just posted an article on the Hawks et al. (2007) paper [ Humans on evolutionary fast track...
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Are humans evolving faster?
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The press release from the University of Utah [ Are humans evolving faster? ] describes the Hawks et al. (2007) paper I blogged about earl...
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Accelerated Human Evolution
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We frequently hear claims that humans have stopped evolving. Most of these claims have to do with medical advances that are now allowing p...
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Morphine, Heroin, Codeine
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Monday's Molecule #55 was morphine [(5α,6α) -7,8-didehydro-4,5-epoxy- 17-methylmorphinan-3,6-diol]. Morphine is an opiate. It is the m...
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Monday, December 10, 2007
SEED and the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology - I Take Back My Praise
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On October 1, 2007 I praised SEED magazine for being one of the few science magazines to correctly define the Central Dogma of Molecular Bio...
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Monday's Molecule #55
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This is a strange-looking molecule. You have to name it, giving us the common name and the correct systematic IUPAC name. There's a di...
IDiot Logic on Display at Uncommon Descent
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GilDodgen is at it again, displaying his unique sense of logic in defense of Intelligent Design Cretionism [ A Practical Medical Applicati...
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Sunday, December 09, 2007
Qualified to Be "Leader of the Free World"? I Don't Think So.
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It's too bad Wolf didn't ask the question he should have asked. Here it is, Wolf, in case you ever get another chance. Scientists ...
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Saturday, December 08, 2007
The DNA Genealogy Scam
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CBC News has a show on television called Marketplace . It often covers scams and commercial frauds that Canadians need to be wary of. Last...
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Castor Oil
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Today's Botany Photo of the Day is Ricinus communis , or the castor bean plant. I don't think I've ever seen a photo of this ...
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The Nathaniel Abraham Affair
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Nathaniel Abraham was a post-doc in a lab working on zebrafish development. He was fired because he revealed after he was hired that he do...
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Impending Canadian Copyright Legislation Could Be Disasterous
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The Government of Canada has served notice that it intends to amend Canadian copyright law to bring it more into line with international s...
Junk DNA in the Toronto Star
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Cameron Smith is an an environmentalist who lives Gananoque, Ontario (Canada). He was written more that 500 columns for the Toronto Star....
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Friday, December 07, 2007
Spe Salvi - Saved by Hope
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Last week Pope Benedict XVI issued an encyclical titled Spe Salvi , a reference to a statment made by Paul to the Romans; "Spe Salvi ...
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Is Your Water Bottle Killing You?
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CTV News is reporting that Mountain Equipment Co-op is going to stop selling polycarbonate water bottles [ Sporting goods chain drops bisp...
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Mitt Romney and Truthiness
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I noticed the following in Mitt Romney's religion speech [ Mitt Romney's Faith In America address (as prepared for delivery) ]. Am...
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Exposed
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Skeptics Canada is launching a year-long campaign against complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The opening salvo will be fired t...
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Thursday, December 06, 2007
Irreducible Complexity
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Lately I've run across several different definitions of irreducible complexity [ Utterly Stupid Quote of the Day ]. Most people seem to...
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My Moral Foundations
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I took the Moral Foundations Questionnaire to see the basis of my morality. My score is shown in green and typical scores for liberals ar...
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