New leader of NIH’s research watchdog faces staff revolt Partin may be looking to NSF for ideas about how to handle charges of plagiarism. Although 81% of NSF’s research misconduct findings involve plagiarism, ORI has left most plagiarism allegations to institutions to handle. Plagiarism was so widespread more than 20 years ago that the co-author … Lawless evolution: No physics
UW-Madison technology enlisted in battle against hepatitis B DNA operates through RNA, and when RNA interference was discovered in 1998, it seemed like a magic bullet that could fight disease by specifically shutting down problematic genes. Before RNA interference was discovered pre-mRNAs were already linked to cell type differentiation in species from microbes to mammals. … RNAi: From magic bullet to billion dollar baby
Rapid bacterial infection test reduces antibiotic use Excerpt: The rapid tests detect C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of infections caused by bacteria, in patients’ blood. A low level of CRP is suggestive of viral infection and therefore antibiotic treatment is not required. My comment: The level of one protein differentiates between a viral and a … The end of neo-Darwinism
The Genome Project-Write Excerpt: …understanding of genetic blueprints could come from construction of large, gigabase (Gb)-sized animal and plant genomes, including the human genome, which would, in turn, drive development of tools and methods to facilitate large-scale synthesis and editing of genomes. To this end, we propose the Human Genome Project-Write (HGP-write), named to honor … Funding the Human Genome Project-Write
Empty Seats as Zoologists Hog Royal Society Stage Excerpt: … they made sure to exclude, for instance, experts on viruses — the largest part of the biosphere — at a time when Zika continues to prove it can downsize the human brain in a flash and could have done the reverse at some point in … Virus-driven downsizing of the human brain
Major transitions in human evolution This theme issue focuses on key evolutionary transitions to understand the interaction of biology, behaviour, culture and environment. This issue is dedicated to Richard Leakey, whose critical discoveries have provided evidence for many of the key phases, and who has inspired much of the work discussed here. This issue is … Major transition ends use of silly theories
See my other blog posts on RNA methylation Thanks for your review of How Can Physics Underlie the Mind?: Top-Down Causation in the Human Context (The Frontiers Collection) Others linked the sun’s anti-entropic virucidal energy from energy-dependent changes in hydrogen-atom transfer in DNA base pairs in solution to supercoiled DNA, which protects all organized genomes … Masters of deception about nature (2)
Energy-dependent RNA methylation (1) Conclusion: Until someone establishes a clear link from energy-dependent RNA methylation to behavior and publishes in a journal such as the Journal of Neuroscience, others may not examine other experimental evidence that clearly links viruses like the Zika virus to changes in morphological phenotypes and behavioral phenotypes via differences in energy-dependent … Energy-dependent RNA methylation (2)
Sirius Cyantis (aka Sean Ovis) takes my claims about virus-driven energy theft and pathology outside the context of creationism. Using his assumed name, he places them into the context of support for evolution. That’s an example of what happens on the “False Flag” Creationism FB group. In the context of combating evolution to fight disease, … War Games: False Flag Terrorism
RNA-mediated physics, chemistry, and molecular epigenetics (5) 5/10/16 Focus: Functional Implications of Human-Specific Changes in Great Ape microRNAs RNA-mediated physics, chemistry, and molecular epigenetics (4) 5/9/16 Focus: Femtosecond structural dynamics drives the trans/cis isomerization in photoactive yellow protein RNA-mediated physics, chemistry, and molecular epigenetics (3) 5/9/16 Focus: Microtargeting cancer metabolism: opening new therapeutic windows based … Countdown to Genetics and Genomics
