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Mendel's Garden #6

The sixth edition of Mendel's Garden has been posted at The Voltage Gate. Like Ice Cube, MC Ren, and Eazy-E, this one's straight outta Compton. Go check it out to see what NWA gots to do with genetics blogging. I...

Mendel's Garden #5

Welcome to the fifth edition of Mendel's Garden -- the blog carnival devoted to all things genetical. In this edition, we have 17 articles from 14 blogs on biomedical research, evolutionary genetics, and molecular and cell biology. The entire...

Friday Incoherent Rambling

I'm slowly turning into a cyclist. I currently own three bikes, but that number may change when I buy the fixed gear I've been longing for. I bought a mountain bike a couple of years ago for commuting to and...

Mendel's Garden -- Last Call for Submissions

Reminder: Today is the last day to submit a post for the upcoming edition of Mendel's Garden. Either email me (evolgen [at] yahoo [dot] com) or use the Blog Carnival submission page....

Mendel's Garden -- Second Call for Submissions

This is a reminder that I will be hosting the fifth edition of Mendel's Garden. Mendel's Garden is a blog carnival devoted to genetics. If you have written a genetics related entry on your blog and would like it...

Interesting Reviewers

Jim Crow has published a perspective in Genetics on his favorite reviewers from 1952-1956 when he was associate editor of the journal. He prefaces it by writing: As far as I can ascertain, the editorial correspondence from that period is...

Developmental Genetics Comes to Life

During the early part of the twentieth century, biological research was somewhat disjointed. Naturalists studied organisms and populations in the wild; geneticists were working out the mechanisms of heredity; and other researchers were figuring out how animals develop from a...

Bad Article on Genetics Blogging

Nature Reviews Genetics has published a terrible review of genetics blogging. And it's not just because they don't link to yours truly. The author links to Alex and Paul Zed, which means she knows about the ScienceBlogs empire network. I...

El Jardín de Mendel Numero 3

The third edition of Mendel's Garden -- the genetics blog carnival -- has been posted at Viva la Evolucion. Nothing like a blog with a Spanish language flavor hosted by an Irish website. Check out los artículos de genética....

A Scientist in Time

If you could have practiced science in any time and any place throughout history, which would it be, and why? That's what they are asking us this week. And, once again, I'm going to skirt the question. You see, it...

Mendel's Garden Call for Submissions

Hsien Lei will be hosting the second edition of Mendel's Garden at Genetics and Health. Submission information is available here....

The First Ever Mendel's Garden

The first ever edition of Mendel's Garden, a blog carnival devoted to genetics, has been posted at The force that through... If you would like to contribute to the next edition, you can find information here....

Francis Collins Opens Mouth, Inserts Genome

Read this reply to Francis Collins on Pharyngula. Collins, one of the biggest movers and shakers behind the human genome project, is also Christian and very eager to tell the world about it. Now he's written a book about his...

Mendel's Garden

There's a new blog carnival on the block, and it goes by the name Mendel's Garden. As you can tell from the name, it's all about genetics. If you have a recent genetics post that you would like to...

Dots on the Wing

Pharyngula has a good summary of the new Sean Carroll Drosophila wing dot paper. Eventually Sean's gonna try to mess around with a hawaiin species and blow the roof off this mother....

Pope Says "Nein" to Genetic Manipulation

From the London Times: In a series of Good Friday meditations that he will lead in Rome, the Pope will say that society is in the grip of a kind of "anti-Genesis" described as "a diabolical pride aimed at eliminating...

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