Sandwalk

The newly sequenced part of the human genome contains the same chromatin regions as the rest of the genome and they don't tell us very m...

The first complete human genome sequence has finally been published. This is my first post on the complete telomere-to-telomere sequence...

A few months ago, the press office of the University of California at San Diego issued a press release with a provocative title ... Illu...

John Mattick and Paulo Amaral have written a book that promotes their views on the content of the human genome. It will be available next Au...

John Mattick has a new book coming out in August where he defends the notion that most of our genome is full of genes for functonal noncodin...

Science editors asked young scientists to imagine what kind of course they would have created if they could go back to a time before the pa...

My book manuscript has been reviewed by some outside experts and they seem to have convinced my editor that my book is worth publishing. I h...

Jacques Fresco died last December. I am kind of a scientific grandson of Jacques Fresco since he mentored my Ph.D. supervisor, Bruce Albert...

Akiko Iwasaki is a Professor of Immunology at Yale and a former student in my department (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Toronto). Sh...

Take any vaccine you can get whenever you can. Moderna is the probably the very best vaccine and Pfizer-BioNTech is a close second. AstraZen...

The Omicron wave is surpassing all records for the number of cases in Ontario. The province has given up on testing for most people so the a...

The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 contains a large number of novel mutations in the spike protein. How did these mutations occur and what is...

Danish scientists have looked at the first 785 cases of Omicron variant in Denmark. The most important lesson is that 83% of the cases were ...

Scientists are very interested in the omicron variant and why it is so dangerous. Since vaccinated people are getting infected, it must mean...

I've learned a bit of immunology from hanging out with immunologists so I'm going to try and explain how vaccines protect you from t...