Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Motoo Kimura calculates a biochemical mutation rate in 1968
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I recently had occasion to re-read a paper by Motoo Kimura from 1968. (Kimura, 1968). I noticed, for the first time, that he estimates a mut...
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Friday, November 27, 2015
Hawker Hurricanes and Typhoons in World War II
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Last week we went to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada) with our grandson Luca [see The Latest Excursion ]....
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Thursday, November 26, 2015
Quotations
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I'm creating a post where I can store quotations so I can link to them from other posts. Enjoy. The great fear of many leading creation...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015
In defense of curiosity-motivated research
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I was prompted to write this post by three recent events. First, I read an article by Angelika Amon who made A case for more curiosity-drive...
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Support basic research with new leaders at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
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An important article in the Ottawa Citizen calls for the resignation of Alain Beaudet, recently reappointed President of the Canadian Instit...
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Intelligent design creationism and intellectual laziness
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I stumbled upon this 2005 letter to Nature by Michael Lynch and I thought I'd share it with you since it emphasizes one of my main pet ...
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Selfish genes and transposons
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Back in 1980, the idea that large fractions of animal and plant genomes could be junk was quite controversial. Although the idea was consist...
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Sunday, November 22, 2015
What do pseudogenes teach us about intelligent design?
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The human genome has about 14,000 pseudogenes that are derived from protein-coding genes and an unknown number derived from genes that speci...
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Friday, November 20, 2015
The truth about ENCODE
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A few months ago I highlighted a paper by Casane et al. (2015) where they said ... In September 2012, a batch of more than 30 articles pres...
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Different kinds of pseudogenes: Polymorphic pseudogenes
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There are three main kinds of pseudogenes: processed pseudogenes , duplicated pseudogenes , and unitary pseudogenes [ Different kinds of ps...
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Different kinds of pseudogenes: Unitary pseudogenes
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The most common types of pseudogenes are processed pseudogenes and those derived from gene duplication events [ duplicated pseudogenes ]. ...
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