So, for the novel, I’ve been doing lots of research on the history of genetics and I’ve come up with an odd problem about evolution. Most of our DNA is junk. It does nothing, codes for no proteins, just sits there like a big lazy telephone cord in every cell carried by every living thingContinue reading “A DNA Mystery (in the context of evolution)”
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Three Months Cometh
This morning, facing up to a three-month cancer check, found myself sitting at the keyboard at 4 a.m., trying to explain to my on-line diary why I was sitting at the keyboard at 4 a.m. Failed miserably. Failed inevitably. Waving my hands in the air as if I might conjure unknown words that everyone couldContinue reading “Three Months Cometh”
Three Hits For Science
The most interesting week in a long time for science, I think. First, the Austrian Academy of Sciences grow themselves a brain. Not in a jar as sci-fi would have it, but in a spinning bioreactor. The scientists say that this matches ‘closely but not perfectly’ brain development in the first nine weeks of foetalContinue reading “Three Hits For Science”
