Category Archives: DNA

It’s out! Today’s Curiosity is Tomorrow’s Cure

Posted on 21 November 2021 by Steve Caplan

Today’s Curiosity is Tomorrow’s Cure: The Case for Basic Biomedical Research is now officially published and available from Routledge/Taylor & Francis/CRC Press on their website, from Amazon and all the regular book sellers, including Barnes & Nobles, Waterstones, etc. I’m … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Remembering Rosalind Franklin

Posted on 25 July 2020 by Athene Donald

By Spudgun67 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link Everyone knows a little something about Rosalind Franklin, whose hundredth birthday it would be today. Some may have little sense of her beyond the belief that she was cheated out of … Continue reading →

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Sympathy or schadenfreude? – the ENCODE consortium gets the hatchet job.

Posted on 2 March 2013 by Philip Strange

A paper was published earlier this week making an extraordinary attack on the integrity of the work of the ENCODE consortium, an international group studying the human genome.  Scientists don’t normally go in for this type of public blood letting, … Continue reading →

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Ph.D. survival: is a jack of all trades a master of none?

Posted on 6 May 2011 by Steve Caplan

Over the years science has changed a great deal. In just the last 50 years or so we’ve seen a major revolution in scientific research, due primarily to our understanding of DNA and ultimately how it codes for protein. But … Continue reading →

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Genome Assembly – a primer for the Shakespeare fan

Posted on 31 December 2010 by Richard Wintle

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; – The Life of King Henry the Fifth, Act III, Scene 1 When last we met, I tried to use Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to help explain genome sequencing. In particular, … Continue reading →

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