I had a long chat with Kat Arney a few weeks ago and she has now taken the best parts of that conversation and put them in her latest Genetics Society podcast: Genes, junk and the 'dark geno… Read More

Here's an excerpt from his review. In his new book "What’s in Your Genome?", Laurence A. Moran shows that all the research done in the decades since that letter was written has co… Read More

If you are interested in learning more about junk DNA here's some links to relevant information. Prologue Chapter 1: Introducing Genomes Chapter 2: The Evolution of Sloppy Genomes C… Read More

 AGENTS OF TIMEHuman biology is finite and yet so incredibly complex. We are constantly surprised by new components and systems being discovered. So far we relied on ‘Hallmarks of… Read More

If you are interested in learning more about junk DNA here's some links to relevant information. Prologue Introducing Genomes The Evolution of Sloppy Genomes Read More

Francis Collins, and many others, believe that the concept of junk DNA is outmoded because recent discoveries have shown that most of the human genome is devoted to regulation. This is part… Read More

There's an old saying that birds of a feather flock together. It means that people with the same interests tend to associate with each other. It's extended meaning refers to the fact that pe… Read More

The pandemic highlighted broad issues in analysis: that many research have been hyped, error-ridden, and even fraudulent, and that misinformation may unfold quickly. But it surely additi… Read More

It's theoretically possible that the presence of abundant transposon fragments in a genome could provide a clade with a selective advantage at the level of species sorting. Is this an import… Read More

Top medical and genetic scientists were excoriated, cancelled and demonized in 2021 for even suggesting that mRNA injections could permanently damage DNA. Now it has been proven. Because &ld… Read More

I had to completely reorganize chapter 2 in order to move population genetics closer to the beginning of the book and reduce the number of words.Chapter 2: The Evolution of Sloppy GenomesFug… Read More

Opponents of junk DNA have been largely unsuccessful in demonstrating that most of our genome is functional. Many of them are vaguely aware of the fact that "no function" (i.e. junk) is the… Read More

ThemeGenomes& Junk DNAI'm trying to read all the recent books on the human genome and anything related. There are a lot of them. Here's a list with some brief comments. You should buy so… Read More

Like the virus whose origin it purports to explain, the following conjecture refuses to die: The novel coronavirus was cooked up in a Chinese lab and either escaped or was intentionally r… Read More

Makhnevych T, Sydorskyy Y, Xin By, Srikumar T, Vizeacoumar FJ, Jeram SM, Li Z, Bahr Utes, Andrews BJ, Boone Chemical, Raught B: Global chart NK cell of SUMO perform revealed simply by protei… Read More

A big milestone goes along with a big win It was great growing up in the Nebraska in the 1990’s. The country was doing fairly well, indie music was blowing up, and Cornhusker sports w… Read More

This is a post about alternative splicing. I've avoided using that term in the title because it's very misleading. Alternative splicing produces a number of different products (RNA or protei… Read More

Postgenomics is a compendium of twelve scholarly articles by philosophers and sociologists who write about the implication of the human genome sequence and subsequent work on interpreting th… Read More