Tag: human genome
In “Junk DNA,” Here Are Benefits of Seeking Function
You wouldn’t toss out all the punctuation in a book as “junk ABC” now, would you? Punctuation has a function.
A Miraculous Existence
Zeeya Merali asks a good question: If God desired to send us a message, how would He do it?
Armed Forces in the Cell Keep DNA Healthy
Science reporters struggle for metaphors to describe the complex operations they see going on in the cell.
Researchers: What’s Evolutionary Debris to You Is Unexplored Territory to Us
From a new, open-access article, “Implications of the first complete human genome assembly.”
Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed
Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature.