I’ve started work at the Genomics Forum
I’ve been at the Genomics Forum for a couple of weeks now, and I’ve spent some of that time trying to figure out what happens here. That may sound rude, but it’s not. According to its website, the...
View ArticleNaming things…
Why do we love words so much? Is there a gene responsible for the love of language? There’s a lot of commentary on genes which seems to conflate the four bases with the alphabetic symbols used to...
View ArticleTime takes a cigarette…
The concept of time in science is problematic. It’s everywhere, yet elusive. The one-way flow of time from the ‘past’ (i.e. what we remember), to the ‘future’ (what we cannot yet recall) is the ghost...
View ArticleInvention versus discovery.
Fiction invents, science discovers – right?But fiction can make you see the real world differently, through examining how humans react to it. For example, Hamlet is torn between two impossible choices,...
View ArticleThe ghosts in the human genome machine
The purpose of the Human Genome Project was to map all the individual bases that make up our DNA. There are four types of these bases, adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine, and they combine to form...
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