Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Friday, August 31, 2007
Blog Day 2007
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The rules for today are that we recommend five blogs you may not be reading on a regular basis. Here are my choices. Four Canadians and on...
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Defining Irreducible Complexity
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So many IDiots, so little time .... Granville Sewell has posted a message on Uncommon Descent asking What if we DID find irreducibly com...
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Dichloroacetate (DCA) Website Shut Down by the FDA
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Dichloroloacetate (DCA) is a potent inhibitor of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase [ Regulating Pyruvate Dehydrogenase ]. There have been sugg...
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A Blue Moon Is the Second Full Moon to Occur in a Single Calendar Month
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Friday's Urban Legend: DEFINITELY FALSE, MAYBE The term "blue moon" dates back to the middle ages where it meant something q...
Where Did Sea Anemones Get Human Genes?
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A recent paper by Putman et al. (2007) discusses the newly completed genome of the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis . Kevin Z, ...
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Tangled Bank #87
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The latest version of the Tangled Bank has been posted on Balancing Life [ Tangled Bank #87 ]. I really like the article on "Standi...
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Thursday, August 30, 2007
THEME: Pyruvate Dehydrogenase
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Pyruvate dehydrogenase is one of the most important enzymes in the cell. It catalyzes the reaction that converts pyruvate to acetyl-CoA with...
Dennett on Adaptationism
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I've been trying to avoid the discussion of Dawkins vs Gould until the results of the poll are in (see left-hand margin). Those of you w...
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Cleopatra VII (69 BC - 30 BC)
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According to some sources, Cleopatra committed suicide on this day in 30 BC [ On this day: August 30 ]. Other sources say it was August 12...
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Genetic Discrimination in Denying Health Benefits
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Hsien-Hsien Lei of Eye on DNA links to an article in the Los Angeles Times [ U.S. military practices genetic discrimination in denying b...
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Ohmygod! These photographs are faked!
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Jonathan Wells, the author of one of the stupidest books on Intelligent Design Creationism ( Icons of Evolution ) has just posted a message ...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Aquatic Ape Speculation
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Read all about the speculation concerning our aquatic ancestry in an impressively researched article by laelaps [ Scuttling the Aquatic Ap...
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Animals and Research
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There are lots of people who object to the use of animals in medical research. They're usually referring to warm fuzzy animals and not...
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Nobel Laureate: Paul Karrer
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1937. "for his investigations on carotenoids, flavins and vitamins A and B2" In 1937, Paul Karrer (...
Vitamin A (retinol)
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There are four lipid vitamins: vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E, and vitamin K . Each of them contain rings and long aliphatic (—CH 2 —) si...
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