human genome

Creating HIV-Resistant Humans: What Could Go Wrong?

October 10, 2019

I’m surprised when I find others who haven’t yet heard of CRISPR gene-editing. Application of this groundbreaking technology has exploded over the past six...

Human Origins & Anthropology

by Anjeanette Roberts Read

A Post-Genomic Era? Ludicrous with an Incomplete Human Genome

August 15, 2019

I periodically draw attention on social media to the fact that the human genome sequence is not complete. I thoroughly enjoy the reaction of...

Biochemistry

by Anjeanette Roberts Read

Long Noncoding RNAs Extend the Case for Creation

January 9, 2019

I don’t like to think of myself as technology-challenged, but I am beginning to wonder if I just might be. As a case in...

Biology

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Believing Impossible Things: Convergent Origins of Functional Junk DNA Sequences

March 14, 2018

In a classic scene from Alice in Wonderland, the story’s heroine informs the White Queen, “One can’t believe impossible things,” to which, the White...

Biology

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

A Bacterial Protein (CRISPR/Cas9) Will Change Life on Earth

July 15, 2016

Recent scientific discoveries have opened an era where humans can alter the genetic make-up of any organism at will. Is this type of power...

Design

by Anjeanette Roberts Read