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Tweet I recently signed the Sense about Science petition in favour of their GM wheat trials. I have just received the following email which suggests that the Take the Flour Back pressure group are afraid to discuss the issues around … Continue reading
Tweet Way back in 2008 I wrote a brief blog article about the sequencing of the genome of a rather poorly unusual organism, Trichoplax adhaerens (What the heck is a Placozoan, anyway?). The interest there was that the genome had … Continue reading
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Tweet I’ve posted a brief article (On the gain of genes and gene function) over at Wonderful Life on two recent papers that reveal something of the rate and nature of gene duplication and diversification within the species of Drosophila. … Continue reading
Tweet This story popped across my screen this morning:Microsoft patents phylogenetic comparative methods. . . say what? – Dechronization blog (hat tip, PJ over at Groklaw). Bizarrely, Microsoft appear to be patenting a method for Clustering Phylogenetic Variation Patterns.” The … Continue reading
Tweet After a bit of teasing in the blogosphere that the draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome would be released in time for Charles Darwin’s birthday this week, I was eagerly looking for a paper. Instead what I find are … Continue reading
