In today’s Guardian newspaper geneticist Steve Jones has a short column replying to a 7 year old child who had asked “Will humans evolve into a new species?“. Jones is known in the UK as the media’s favourite geneticist and evolutionary biologist; he is a frequent guest on media shows and contributor in print media….
Tag: Research
Calculating intron density
I have a project going at the moment to examine changes in intron diversity, size and location in animal genomes. I am always a bit frustrated with the way introns are treated in many genome characterisation papers- “the genome contained Y introns with mean intron size Xbp” is usually all we get. This sort of…
Research Culture- lessons from Google?
I just read a post at Mario’s Entangled Bank called “Running an Academic Lab Google Style“. Some interesting ideas that I was aware of but had kind of forgotten. When I was a postdoc I had lots of strong views on how research should be done and although I haven’t really changed my mind it…
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