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Leh 300: Genome a cipher, not a blueprint

Posted on February 6, 2013 by proftp

PZ Myers has a nice post on how the human (or any organism’s) genome does—and does not—work: There is no blueprint, no map. That’s not how the system works. What you actually find in the genome are coding genes that … Continue reading →

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Genes, race, & disease (Leh 300)

Posted on July 14, 2009 by proftp

The news is so accomodating to our course: The Journal of the National Cancer Institute has just published two studies (abstracts here and here; go thru the library to read the full articles) on disparate outcomes in sex-specific cancer survival … Continue reading →

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