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DNA May Be “Junk” at One Level But of Utmost Significance at Another

It is during the latter stages of the production of an animal oocyte that many functionalities of what some disparage as “junk DNA” take center stage. Read More ›
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More Hints of Order in the Genome

Genomics has come a long way since the central dogma and junk DNA. If you expect to find reasons for things, you often do find them. Read More ›
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Religion, Science, and Evolution: Confessions of a Darwinian Skeptic

As I read through the scientific literature of evolutionary biology to try and convince myself of its accuracy and coherence, I was struck by the frequency with which I encountered “religious” language. Read More ›
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Researchers Spot a New Code in Disordered Proteins

The scientists call heat shock proteins “nature’s ‘first responders’ to cellular stress.”  Read More ›
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The Ideological Nature of Darwinian Evolution

Orthodoxy and heresy are not synonyms for true and false, and sometimes the truth might lie with the heretics. Read More ›
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Genetics and Epigenetics — New Problems for Darwinism

Scientists watched microbes inherit extreme acid resistance in Yellowstone hot springs not through genetics, but through epigenetics. Read More ›
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More Information Found in DNA: The Shape Code

Researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands made “a remarkable discovery” about a protein named Polycomb that binds to DNA. Read More ›
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Life Exponential: Life Exhibits Intelligent Design at Many Levels

Complexity (such as we see in a pile of autumn leaves) can arise spontaneously from unguided natural processes, but complex specified information cannot. Read More ›
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Genetics Leaves Central Dogma and Junk DNA in the Rear-View Mirror

Genetics is now a subset of epigenetics, in which multiple dynamic molecules play key roles in homeostasis.  Read More ›
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DNA as Architect as Well as Librarian: Structural Functions of the Double Helix

Early geneticists missed a lot when they looked at DNA only for its coding function. Read More ›

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