Sandwalk

The new mRNA vaccines are the result of extensive research over the past thirty years or so. They are marvels of technological innovation bu...

Several diseases, such as cancers, are caused by the presence of deleterious alleles that affect the function of a gene. In the case of canc...

After spending several years working on a book about the human genome I've come to the realization that the field of genomics is not del...

Opponents of junk DNA have been largely unsuccessful in demonstrating that most of our genome is functional. Many of them are vaguely aware ...

The first draft of my book is ready to be sent to my publisher. Text by Laurence A. Moran Cover art and figures by Gordon L. Moran ...

I just received an invitation to a meeting ... On behalf of the international organizing committee, we would like to invite you to a conf...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! These are my great-grandparents Thomas Keys Foster, born in County Tyrone on September 5, 1852 and Eliza Ann Jo...

Most of us learned that science provides good answers to all sort of questions ranging from whether a certain drug is useful in treating COV...

A group of scientists, mostly from the University of Ghent 1 (Belgium), have posted a paper on bioRxiv. Lorenzi, L., Chiu, H.-S., Cobos, F...

Richard Dawkins has written an essay for The Spectator in which he says, "[Science is not] a social construct. It’s simply true. Or a...

Nature has now published a series of articles celebrating the 20th anniversary of the publication of the draft sequences of the human genom...

This is the fifth (and last) post in celebration of the 20th anniversary of publishing the draft sequence. The first four posts dealt with: ...

We know a lot more about the human genome than we did when the draft sequences were published 20 years ago. One of the most important discov...

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of the first drafts of the human genome sequence. Science choose to celebrate the a...

It's been 20 years since the first drafts of the human genome sequence were published. These first drafts from the International Human G...