Lab Coats & Gloves
Category: In the Lab
Before you enter a common area or grab a bite to eat, please remove your lab coat and gloves.
Posted by RPM at 10:00 AM • 1 Comments •
evolgen
AT THE CONVERGENCE OF EVOLUTION AND GENETICS
About evolgen
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.
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December 31, 2006
December 30, 2006
Save the Flies!!
Category: Drosophila
Twelve drosophilids earned protection from the government of the United States in 2006.
Posted by RPM at 10:00 AM • 2 Comments •
December 29, 2006
The Rift in Evolutionary Biology
Category: Evolution
The rift in the biological sciences may lie between computational biologists and wet labs, but when we look at individual fields, we see other divisions. In an essay in PLoS Computational Biology Carl Zimmer describes the divide amongst evolutionary biologists....
Posted by RPM at 12:45 PM • 2 Comments •
December 28, 2006
It Happens Again
Category: Admin
Another day, another person confuses us with Jason Rosenhouse.
Posted by RPM at 3:45 PM • 6 Comments •
Barbaro NOT Cured by Jesus
Category: Anti-Science
Barbaro, the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner who broke his leg during the Preakness Stakes, is almost healthy enough to be released from his ICU stall at University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center. He has been the focus of hopes...
Posted by RPM at 3:00 PM • 6 Comments •
Scientific American Also Mixes Terminology
Category: Science News
The editors at Scientific American are afraid of PLoS ONE, but they're more than happy to publish articles about Nature papers. Their coverage of the Komodo dragon virgin births contains the following lead in:...
Posted by RPM at 12:30 PM • 7 Comments •
December 26, 2006
Chance, Stochasticity, Probability and Evolution
Category: Evolution
Before we can determine the role of chance in evolution, we must define what we mean by chance.
Posted by RPM at 1:00 PM • 8 Comments •
December 25, 2006
James Brown -- Overpowered by Funk
Category: Pop Culture
James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, has passed away at the age of 73 in Atlanta, Georgia. The world is a slightly less funky place today. I've posted some videos -- in honor of the hardest working man in...
Posted by RPM at 2:30 PM • 2 Comments •
A Clash of Cultures on the Gridiron
Category: Academia
This year's college football bowl season gives us a match up of two schools on opposite ends of the American cultural divide.
Posted by RPM at 12:15 PM • 5 Comments •
Studying Cancer from an Evolutionary Framework
Category: Biology
Carl Zimmer has an article in the upcoming edition of Scientific American that looks at cancer from the perspective of evolutionary biology. The most obvious parallel is that of cancer cells within an individual modeled as an evolving population: Rare...
Posted by RPM at 10:00 AM • 5 Comments •
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