Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Monday's Molecule #141: Winner
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The molecule is cholic acid, which usually exists as sodium cholate. It's one of the major bile acids in mammals. The bile acids help ...
Monday, October 19, 2009
Monday's Molecule #141
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Identify this molecule. Be as specific as possible. Briefly describe what it does. There's a Nobel Prize connected to this molecule. T...
What's the Connection between
Hpa
II and CpG Islands?
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Epigenetics is all the rage today but the idea that gene expression could be regulated by modifying DNA and/or chromatin has been around f...
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Howler Monkeys in New York
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Here's a photo of some Howler Monkeys in New York City. I've met some of them. I'm not sure I want to meet the others ... just...
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An Exposé of the Evolution Industry?
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Susan Mazur is a science writer. A few years ago she got wind of a conference that was planed for Altenberg in Austria. This was going to b...
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
Alternative Medicine at the University of Toronto
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Several readers and bloggers have noted that there's an AutismOne conference being held on the University of Toronto campus in a few w...
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Friday, October 16, 2009
Jerry Coyne's View of Random Genetic Drift
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Why Evolution Is True by Jerry Coyne is one of the best popular books on evolution. If you can only buy one book this year then this is the...
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IDiots, Evolution, and False Dichotomies
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Casey Luskin is one of the DISCO defenders of Intelligent Design Creationism. He's all upset these days because their movie Darwin...
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Calling All Science Writers!
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The pathway of information flow runs from DNA to RNA to proteins. There are a bunch of fundamentally important steps in this pathway inclu...
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Joe Thornton vs Michael Behe
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A few weeks ago I blogged about an important series of papers on the evolution of the glucocorticoid receptor gene [see You Can't Go Hom...
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
My Family and Other Emperors
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Here's how my family descends from Charlemagne. The last people on the list are my maternal grandparents. I think the data is accurate ...
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Are You a Descendant of Charlemagne?
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Thousands of amateur genealogists have contributed to a huge database of family relationships, including genetic analyses. What does this t...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Nobel Laureates: Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1991 "for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells" E...
The McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science Goes to Brian Alters
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The Royal Society of Canada regularly presents the McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science to deserving educators. This year the ...
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Monday's Molecule #140: Winner
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The molecule is the potassium ion channel from rat brain cells. Roderick MacKinnon solved this structure and he got the Nobel Prize in 200...
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