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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Tangled Bank #82
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The latest version of Tangled Bank has been posted on Greg Laden's blog. This is a review by Derwin Darwin II with the title: Various...
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Evolutionary Biologists Flunk Religion Poll
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In a follow-up to previous studies, Gregory W. Graffin and William B. Provine surveyed prominent evolutionary biologists to find out what ...
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Denyse O'Leary Has Advice for the Fans of Francis Collins
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From Me?: Something against Francis Collins? No! . On the other hand, I admit to deep disappointment in the intellectual substance of Coll...
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Nobel Laureates: Richard Roberts and Phillip Sharp
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993. "for their discoveries of split genes" Richard J. Roberts (1943 - ) and Phillip ...
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What Does the "Support Our Troops" Ribbon mean to You?
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Since last October emergency vehicles in Toronto have been displaying a decal in support of our troops in Afghanistan. The decals were pla...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
RNA Splicing: Introns and Exons
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Most eukaryotic protein-encoding genes are interrupted. The coding regions are divided into numerous blocks called "exons" and the...
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What is a gene, post-ENCODE?
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Back in January we had a discussion about the definition of a gene [ What is a gene? ]. At that time I presented my personal preference for ...
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Monday, June 18, 2007
Gene Genie #9
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The latest issue of the carnival Gene Genie has just been posted on DNAdirect talk .
Skepticism About "Out-of-Africa"
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Alan R. Templeton has long been a critic of those who would over-interpret the genetic data on human origins. He's not alone. There ar...
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Skepticism About Evo-Devo
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The May issue of Evolution contains an article by Hoekstra and Coyne on Evolutionary-Developmental Biology or Evo-Devo. There are many ev...
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Monday's Molecule #31
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Today's molecule is complicated but it makes a lot of sense if you know your basic biochemistry. We don't need a long complicated ...
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Saturday, June 16, 2007
Cellular Respiration Ninja Enzymes
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Here's a student video presentation of glycolysis and respiration. It's much better than most [e.g., An Example of High School Bio...
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Friday, June 15, 2007
Penicillin Resistance in Bacteria: After 1960
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The widespread appearance of penicillin-resistant bacteria by 1960 prompted the introduction of new drugs that could not be degraded by ne...
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Penicillin Resistance in Bacteria: Before 1960
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The Nobel Prize for the discovery and analysis of penicillin was awarded in 1945 [ Nobel Laureates: Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Cha...
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
Catherine Shaffer Responds to My Comments About Her WIRED Article
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Over on the WIRED website there's a discussion about the article on junk DNA [ One Scientist's Junk Is a Creationist's Treasur...
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