How Easy is it to Write About Junk DNA?
Alex is pissed about science writers neglecting important discoveries in cell biology: Why are cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology never covered in the media? I’ve spoken to so...
View ArticleJudson on Junk and Genome Size
Olivia Judson (aka, Dr. Tatiana) has a blog at the NYTimes website. It’s usually a good read, but she has been known to go off the deep end. In this week’s entry, Judson posts on how bones are not the...
View ArticleEvidence that Men Think With Their Junk
Us dudes are always accused of thinking with our dicks. Perhaps it’s because the genes expressed in our brains are similar to those expressed in our ‘nads: Among the 17 tissues, the highest similarity...
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El Chupacabra de Barcelona
I think I’m cursed. Or I have bad luck. Or conference organizers think I’m a morning person. Alright, so maybe I really am a morning person. But that’s besides the point. Because it sucks to give a...
View ArticleDeborah Charlesworth on Lynch’s Origin of Genome Architecture
Brian Charlesworth wrote a review of Mike Lynch’s The Origins of Genome Architecture, in which Charlesworth argues that sexual reproduction can explain many of the features Lynch claims evolved under...
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New Gene Makes Flies Less Gay
We all know that Drosophila are the gayest bunch of gays that ever gayed up genetics. This is especially true when you create mutations in fruitless (nee fruity), “the gay gene”. Male flies with...
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Sex & SMBE in 2009
The University of Iowa is hosting next year’s meeting of the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, SMBE 2009. I usually go to the annual SMBE conference, and I was probably going to attend SMBE...
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Slightly Deleterious in Trans
One of the hot topics in evolutionary biology concerns the relative contributions of protein coding sequence changes and non-coding changes that lead to differences in the expression of protein coding...
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Get Your Masatoshi Nei Trading Card
The Penn State Alumni Association has produced trading cards featuring the best and the brightest of the university’s faculty (Pa. trading cards highlight brains, not brawn). The cards are only...
View ArticleThe Implementation of Molecular Evolution for the Masses
A couple of years ago, there was talk in the bioblogosphere about getting the general public interested in bioinformatics and molecular evolution: Amateur bioinformatics? Lowering the Ivory Tower with...
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