The initial measurement of the difference between the human and chimp genomes was based on aligning 2.4 billion base pairs in the two genomes. This gave a difference of 1.23% by countin… Read More

Can You Patent Your Cat?This is undoubtedly one of the questions that frequently arise when intellectual property practitioners discuss their experiences with biotechnology researchers. In g… Read More

When doing an exeriment, it's important to keep the number of variables to a minimum and it's important to have scientific controls. There are two types of controls. A negative control cover… Read More

An option analysis calculate, 5th-order markov design regarding non-coding locations, showed changing functionality with regards to the various info collection. Consequently, the best seedli… Read More

There are several ways to report a mutation rate. You can state it as the number of mutations per base pair per year in which case a typical mutation rate for humans is about 5 × 10-10… Read More

This is the second post discussing creationist1 papers on pseudogenes. The first post addressed a paper by Jeffrey Tomkins on the β-globin pseudogene [Creationists questioning pseudogen… Read More

Water: Under pressureAs of World Water Day in March 2008, more than billion people around the world still lack access to safe drinking water and two billion have little or no sanitation. As… Read More