Tag: genes
As Research Advances, Debunking “Junk DNA” Is Almost Trendy
Why not treat the whole genome as functional? This is a radical concept, but perhaps the focus on genes distorts our understanding.
Darwin’s House of Cards Gets Praise — And Underinformed Criticism
As Tom Bethell points out, there is a lot more to living things than their DNA.
Seeing the Nucleus in 4-D
Caltech scientists watch a spectacle of “ten thousand bursting genes” as the “cartography of the nucleus” comes into focus.
Groundbreaking Paper Shows Thousands of New Genes Needed for the Origin of Animals
This is nothing short of a spectacular vindication of Stephen Meyer’s perspective in Darwin’s Doubt.
Andreas Wagner: Genetic Regulation Drives Evolutionary Change
In a seemingly infinite hall of mirrors, monumental assertions are casually made and immediately followed by citations that simply do the same thing.