Theory presented in a book
Free Radicals: The Secret Anarchy of Science Re: Lynn Margulis Excerpt: “I was told by an NSF grants officer (after having been supported nicely for […]
Month: March 2014
Conserved molecular mechanisms: What is not clear?
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Myths and Mechanisms Heard and Martienssen (2014) Excerpt 1): “…small RNA signals are highly mobile, being transmitted through the gut in C. […]
Biophysical constraints touted as hype
End the Hype over Epigenetics & Lamarckian Evolution by Alex B. Berezow March 31, 2014 Excerpt: “Unlike regular genetics, which studies changes in the sequence of […]
Signal transduction: frightfully complex
Signal Transduction: Poetry in Motion By Ricki Lewis, PhD Excerpt: “…the scary parts of biology were cellular respiration and the synthesis and degradation pathways of the […]
Physics and Chemistry and Biology = Ecological adaptations
Open questions: microbes, metabolism and host-pathogen interactions Malcolm McConville published 3/28/14 Excerpt: “The revival in interest in metabolism has been particularly apparent to those of us […]
BioAnthropology News: it’s evolution; no epigenetics allowed
“Human Evolution: Early Human Diets” webcast Excerpt: What was on the dinner plate for early humans a million years ago? My comment: A million years […]
Stupid monkey (or not)?
Discoveries Challenge Beliefs on Humans’ Arrival in the Americas Excerpt: “How could Polynesians have made it to Brazil? Or aboriginal Australians? Or, if the archaeologists […]
Mutations not found in gene variants
Map of how DNA controls cells may boost gene therapies 18:00 26 March 2014 by Michael Slezak Excerpt: “…mutations linked to disease occur more often in […]
Journals that damage science
Feierman: If this was such an important article, it would have been published in Science or Nature and not in the obscure journal that published it. […]
The Supremacy of DNA?
A Challenge to the Supremacy of DNA as the Genetic Material By Ricki Lewis, PhD Excerpt: “One sentence from the news release grabbed me: “The […]