Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Human GULOP Pseudogene
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Locus GULOP in the human genome is the site of a pseudogene called GULOP. In most mammals this is an active gene encoding the enzyme L-gluco...
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Nobel Laureate: Walter Norman Haworth
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The Nobel Prize inChemistry 1937. "for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C" Sir Norman Haworth won the Nobel Prize ...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Canadian Parliament Scraps Anti-terror Laws
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Given a choice between trusting the "soft-on-terror" Liberals and the "crack-down-on-crime" Conservatives, I go with t...
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Short on Gas
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There's a gasoline shortage in Ontario. The main cause was a fire last week at an Esso refinery near Hamilton. The ancillary cause is ...
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Peter McKnight on the Marcus Ross Issue
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One week ago I commented on an opinion piece in the Vancouver Sun. Peter McKnight wrote in support of giving Marcus Ross a Ph.D. in geosci...
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Scurvy and Vitamin C
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Scurvy is a disease characterized by general lethargy and malaise. As the disease progresses the patient develops pain in the extremities,...
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Collagen
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Collagen is the major protein component of the connective tissue of vertebrates; it constitutes about 25% to 35% of the total protein in mam...
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Joke of the Day: Jonathan Wells
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Your dose of humor for today comes from an article by Jonathan Wells on the Discovery Institute website [ Alchemy, Marxism, and the future...
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An American Rhodes Scholar in Biochemistry
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Nick Anthis at The Scientific Activist writes about the Rhodes Scholar experience in Oxford [ It's OK to Nibble, but Don't Bite O...
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Monday, February 26, 2007
Shift Happens
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This is interesting. I don't agree with everything—especially the idea that things are going to change that much in the next 15 years ...
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Just-So Stories
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Fanciful evolutionary explanations that have little connection to facts are called "just-so" stories after the collection of stori...
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The Genetics of Eye Color
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The genetics of blood type is a relatively simple case of one locus Mendelian genetics—albeit with three alleles segregating instead of the ...
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I Agree With Denyse O'Leary!
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Calm down. The world has not come to an end. I don't agree with everything Denyse O'Learly says but there's one issue where w...
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The Felt Effect of Gravity
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Phil Plait answers the question, "Just how strong is the gravity from the Moon compared to someone right next to you?" . The ans...
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Monday's Molecule #15
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Name this molecule. You must be specific. We need the correct scientific name. As usual, there's a connection between Monday's mol...
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