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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, March 13, 2014
The "selfish gene" is not a good metaphor to describe evolution
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Last December David Dobbs wrote an article entitled " Die, selfish gene die! " in which he promoted some really stupid ideas about...
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What is "macroevolution"?
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Denyse O'Leary on Uncommon Descent wonders Is “macroevolution” even a meaningful term? It’s time to ask. Here's the problem as c...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Everything you thought you knew about sex is probably wrong
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The evolution of sexual reproduction is one of the great mysteries of biology. I've been teaching this to undergraduates for several dec...
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Prayer at Mississauga City Council
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I am reliably informed that meetings of the Mississauga City Council 1 still begin with a prayer. I'm not sure why city councilors feel...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
What did Joe Felsenstein say about sex?
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Today we talked about the evolution of sex. The take-home message is that sex is one of the most difficult problems in biology. We really do...
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Marc Garneau and the Liberal Party of Canada support basic research
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Last night I was at a small gathering of Liberal supporters at the Paramount restaurant on Yonge Street in Toronto. The event was organized ...
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Monday, March 10, 2014
Bye bye RNA world
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I think it's time we started being serious about the limitations of the RNA world as a possible explanation for the origin of life. It...
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Monday's Molecule #232
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Monday's Molecule #231 [ Monday's Molecule #231 ] was the Shine-Delgarno sequence found a few nucleotides upstream of the initiation...
Did you lose an hour of sleep?
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Saturday night was the night when most people in North American turned their clocks forward one hour for "Daylight Saving Time." 1...
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Friday, March 07, 2014
How to survive in the blogosphere
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Later on today I'm giving a talk at Western University (London, Ontario, Canada) 1 The subject is blogging. I realized while preparin...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2014
The crystal structure of
E. coli
RNA polymearse σ
70
holoenzyme
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THEME: Transcription The Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) publishes a little booklet of the "best of jbc." The latest copy...
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Monday, March 03, 2014
Monday's Molecule #231
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Monday's Molecule #230 (Jan. 27, 2014) [ Monday's Molecule #230 ] was 2-carboxy-3-ketoarabinitol 1,5- bis phosphate. It's an int...
Carnival of Evolution #69
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This month's Carnival of Evolution is hosted by a BIOCHEMIST (yeah!) named "Lab Rat" (S.E. Gould) at Lab Rat . Read it at 69t...
Carnival of Evolution #68
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I forgot to post a link to last month's Carnival of Evolution . It was hosted by a computational biologist who posts at Byte Size Biolog...
Death of the genome paper
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There was a time when sequencing a gene was just about all you needed to get a publication. Getting a high quality sequence of a typical pro...
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