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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Tuesday, July 04, 2017
Another contribution of philosophy: Bernard Lonergan
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The discussion about philosophy continues on Facebook. One of my long-time Facebook friends, Jonathan Bernier, took up the challenge. Bernie...
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Monday, July 03, 2017
Contributions of philosophy
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I've been discussing the contributions of philosophy on Facebook. Somebody linked to a a post on the topic: What has philosophy contribu...
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Sunday, July 02, 2017
Confusion about the number of genes
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My last post was about confusion over the sizes of the human and mouse genomes based on a recent paper by Breschi et al. (2017). Their state...
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Genome size confusion
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The July 2017 issue of Nature Reviews: Genetics contains an interesting review of a topic that greatly interest me. Breschi, A., Gingeras,...
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Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Debating alternative splicing (Part IV)
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In Debating alternative splicing (Part III) I discussed a review published in the February 2017 issue of Trends in Biochemical Sciences . T...
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Monday, June 26, 2017
Debating alternative splicing (Part III)
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Proponents of massive alternative splicing argue that most human genes produce many different protein isoforms. According to these scientist...
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Saturday, June 24, 2017
Debating alternative splicing (part II)
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Mammalian genomes are very large. It looks like 90% of it is junk DNA. These genomes are pervasively transcribed, meaning that almost 90% of...
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Friday, June 23, 2017
Debating alternative splicing (part I)
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I recently had a chance to talk science with my old friend and colleague Jack Greenblatt . He has recently teamed up with some of my other c...
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Thursday, June 22, 2017
Are most transcription factor binding sites functional?
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The ongoing debate over junk DNA often revolves around data collected by ENCODE and others. The idea that most of our genome is transcribed ...
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Jonathan Wells talks about junk DNA
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Watch this video. It dates from this year. Almost everything Wells says is either false or misleading. Why? Is he incapable of learning abou...
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Some of my former students
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Some of my former students were able to come to my retirement reception yesterday: Sean Blaine (left), Anna Gagliardi, Marc Perry.
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Hot slash buns
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I love hot "cross" buns but now we buy the atheist version.
I retired after 39 years and they gave me an old used book
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... but it was a rather special book ...
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017
John Mattick still claims that most lncRNAs are functional
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Most of the human genome is transcribed at some time or another in some tissue or another. The phenomenon is now known as pervasive transcri...
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Tuesday, June 20, 2017
On the evolution of duplicated genes: subfunctionalization vs neofunctionalization
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New genes can arise by gene duplication. These events are quite common on an evolutionary time scale. In the current human population, for e...
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