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Molecular Biology:

Steve Pinker's hair and the muscles of worms

Category: Genetics

I've been guilty of teaching bean-bag genetics this semester. Bean-bag genetics treats individuals as a bag of irrelevant shape containing a collection of alleles (the "beans") that are sorted and disseminated by the rules of Mendel, and at its worst,...

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Techniques to go with the tools

Category: Molecular Biology

So you read that cool summary of how to build a molecular biology lab for $500. But wait, you don't know what you'd do with the mobio toys! Here's how to correct that: go to a workshop. THE MICHAEL SMITH...

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Mad scientists, start drooling

Category: Communicating science

The future is arriving fast. Here are the instructions for assembling a $500 home molecular biology laboratory — you can do it! And it's getting cheaper all the time! The widespread and increasing availability of second-hand professional laboratory equipment or...

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My turn at Skepticon

Category: Molecular Biology

Yeah, I gave a talk at Skepticon like several other rascals here at Freethoughtblogs. Now, even if you didn't make the pilgrimage to Springfield, Missouri, you can watch it too. It's a straight science talk with several swipes at creationism,...

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How many genes does it take to make a squid eye?

Category: Science

This is an article about cephalopods and eye evolution, but I have to confess at the beginning that the paper it describes isn't all that interesting. I don't want you to have excessive expectations! I wanted to say a few...

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How to examine the evolution of proteins

Category: Science

In my previous post, I described the misguided approach Gauger and Axe have taken to criticizing evolution, and one of the peculiarities of their criticism is that they cited another paper by a paper by Carroll, Ortlund, and Thornton which...

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The epigenetics miracle?

Category: Science

Jerry Coyne is mildly incensed — once again, there's a lot of recent hype about epigenetics, and he doesn't believe it's at all revolutionary. Well, I've written about epigenetics before, I think it's an extremely important subject central to our...

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The greatest science paper ever published in the history of humankind

Category: Cephalopods

That's not hyperbole. I really mean it. How else could I react when I open up the latest issue of Bioessays, and see this: Cephalopod origin and evolution: A congruent picture emerging from fossils, development and molecules. Just from...

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A little cis story

Category: Science

I found a recent paper in Nature fascinating, but why is hard to describe — you need to understand a fair amount of general molecular biology and development to see what's interesting about it. So those of you who already...

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The saga of Junk DNA

Category: Creationism

So you're tantalized by this strange obsession creationists have with junk DNA. It offends them mightily, I think because they find comfort in the idea that everything in the universe must have a purpose, because if it doesn't, maybe that...

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