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Photo: Sperm, by Bobjgalindo / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Doctor’s Diary: Evolution’s Countless Chicken-and-Egg Conundrums

It turned out last week that scientists have been wrong for 350 years about how sperm swim. Read More ›
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Image credit: Colin Behrens, via Pixabay.

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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Photo: Pig oocyte, by Jakub Friedl / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Chromosome Dynamics Has Egg-centric Features

In the words of Robert Rosen we have to “drastically reconsider what is meant by “genetic information.’” Read More ›
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Photo: Drosophila melanogaster, an engaging fly, by Sanjay Acharya / CC BY-SA.

The “Why” of the Fly “Y”: Reflections on “Junk” DNA

Let us give some thought to the Y chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster, that engaging fly which is the bond-servant of genetics. Read More ›
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Image credit: Caulobacter crescentus, by University of Basel, Swiss Nanoscience Institute/Biozentrum, via EurekAlert!

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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Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design Were a Turning Point for Me

We have connected alumni with scientists who are conducting key research related to the design debate. Other graduates have become professors themselves. Read More ›
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Waste Not: Research Finds that “Far from Junk DNA,” ERVs Perform “Critical Cellular Functions”

A pair of new articles in Nature Genetics acknowledge just how widespread ERV and retrotransposon functionality is. Read More ›

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