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AT THE CONVERGENCE OF EVOLUTION AND GENETICS
We talk about molecular population and evolutionary GENETICS and GENOMICS. You know, the caliper measurement of a gene's evolvability in moles.
Eschewing obfuscation ever since Morgan.
March 31, 2006
Category: Science Policy
Our plan to have the House Budget Committee approve an amendment to increase the NIH budget failed. Our next chance to ensure the NIH budget is increased will occur on the House floor. If you have yet to contact your...
Posted by RPM at 7:04 PM • 5 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Double Entendre
Help! I need some more double entendres. Help! Not just any double entendres. Help! You know I need some biology double entendres. When I first proposed this wacky idea I figured I'd add funny biology terms to my list as...
Posted by RPM at 2:15 PM • 1 Comments •
March 30, 2006
Category: Science Policy
The Coalition Against Biopiracy has announced their winners for the 2006 Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy, and they're a hoot. We already knew that Darwin was a pirate, but now we learn that so are Craig Venter and Google....
Posted by RPM at 1:20 PM • 3 Comments •
March 29, 2006
Category: Science Policy
As I mentioned previously, the Senate passed the Specter-Harkin Amendment. The House of Representatives is our next target to ensure the Bush's anti-science budget is improved upon. The Genetics Society of America has done an excellent job keeping its members...
Posted by RPM at 2:25 PM • • 1 TrackBacks
March 27, 2006
Category: Molecular Biology
My little screed on junk DNA elicited some good feedback, including a comment from Dan Graur. In a somewhat ill-thought out rant, I implied that anyone who uses the term 'junk DNA' should be ostracized from the scientific community (or...
Posted by RPM at 1:36 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Admin
Alright, already! I took the quiz. 12.5% is like the equivalent of one leg, right? That's not too bad. 12.5 %My weblog owns 12.5 % of me.Does your weblog own you?...
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March 24, 2006
Category: Double Entendre
I'm running out of good biology related double entendres, and I want to wait a few more weeks before I post those that people suggested in the comments or that I stole from other blogs (don't worry, I'll give you...
Posted by RPM at 11:03 AM • •
Category: Genomics
The title is, obviously, an overstatement, exaggeration, and blatant misrepresentation. But it gets your attention, don't it? Anyway, Hawks has been questioning whether genomics is really any different from genetics. In this post, he says something that I've been thinking...
Posted by RPM at 8:01 AM • 4 Comments •
March 23, 2006
Category: Evolution
Alex Palazzo managed to piss off some people with his taxonomy of biomedical disciplines. We have also learned that there are different types of physics geeks and anthropologists. (By the way, don't ever call me a geek; geeks bite the...
Posted by RPM at 8:43 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Science News
The term "Junk DNA" is bullshit. There, I said it. The moment I hear someone utter that phrase, I immediately lose respect for him or her. No one whose opinion is worth anything will refer to non-coding DNA as junk....
Posted by RPM at 2:43 PM • 22 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
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