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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Friday, April 24, 2009
Can watery asteroids explain why life is 'left-handed'?
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It's time to re-visit the so-called "racemization" or "chirality" problem. The "problem" is thought to be ...
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Nobel Laureate: Sir Paul Nurse
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle" Sir Paul M. Nurse (19...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
It's a Beauty Pageant - What Did you Expect?
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I think it's safe to assume that most of you don't watch beauty pageants. However, I think it's also a safe bet that you'v...
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Facts Supporting Intelligent Design Creationism?
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We all know that the Intelligent Design Creationist movement consists almost exclusively of attacks on science. The idea seems to be that ...
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The Trouble with NCSE
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I am a member of National Center for Science Education (NCSE). That does not mean I agree with everything they do. My biggest bone of cont...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
How to Evaluate Genome Level Transcription Papers
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It's often very difficult to evaluate the results of large-scale genome studies. Part of the problem is that the technology is complicat...
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Monday's Molecule #118: Winners
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UPDATE : The molecule is cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2), a protein involved in signaling [ PDB 1b38 ]. The Nobel Laureate is Paul Nurse....
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Sequenced genomes contain thousands of "unknown" genes
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The total number of genes in the human genome has dropped from the initial estimates of 30-35,000 to about 25,000. Of these, more than 4,0...
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Conservative Spin
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Canadian Cynic has built a career out of keeping an eye on The Blogging Tories . Every now and then CC comes up with something that makes...
Monday, April 20, 2009
International team cracks mammalian gene control code
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International team cracks mammalian gene control code Stop the presses! Revise the textbooks! John Mattick and his collaborators have disc...
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Idiot America?
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Oh dear, my accommodationist friends aren't gonna like this. From the amazon.com site .... The Culture Wars Are Over and the Idiots H...
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Bob McDonald Explains why Canadian Scientists Are Upset
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Bob McDonald is the host of Quirks & Quarks on CBC radio. He has a blog and here's part of what he posted on Friday [ Another Ear...
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Monday's Molecule #118
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This is a very famous protein but most of you won't be able to identify it from the structure alone. You'll need a hint of some so...
Agnotology
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A reader (David) posted a comment about my recent Denyse O'Leary quotation. He alerted me to a new word: agnotology [ Comments ]. The...
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And Now for a Little Comic Relief
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It's been a few weeks since my last humorous posting so at the start of a new week I thought I'd give you something to laugh about...
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