I reported research on microRNAs and the link from cell type differentiation to ecological adaptations when there were 47,000 indexed publications. See “From hydrogen atom transfer in DNA base pairs to ecosystems” 3/2/16 Link light-activated nutrient-dependent microRNA biogenesis to cell type differentiation via epigenesis and epistasis. It’s been 6 years, and there are now more … Photonics in Forensics (10)
Testing Two Evolutionary Theories of Human Aging with DNA Methylation Data My summary: Outside the context of food energy-dependent biophysically constrained pheromone-controlled viral latency, mutation accumulation (MA) and disposable soma (DS) provide possible explanations for the existence of human aging. For example, age-differentially-methylated sites across the genome showed significant MA-consistent increases in heritability with age … Evolutionary theories of epigenetic drift
See first: Dobzhansky 1973 and precision medicine Prognostic value of the MicroRNA-29 family in multiple human cancers: A meta-analysis and systematic review ….low expression of miR-29 is associated with aggressiveness and poor prognosis of malignant neoplasms. More importantly, miR-29 might serve as a key biomarker for predicting the recurrence and progression of human cancers. Feeding … Science journalists or paid propagandists? (4)
Evidence That the Origin of Naked Kernels During Maize Domestication Was Caused by a Single Amino Acid Substitution in tga1 Excerpt: “Our molecular and genetic analyses of tga1 show how a simple amino acid change can alter protein function and thereby drive the evolution of a new phenotypic state.” Reported as: Study shows how a … Domestication via a single amino acid substitution
Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome Hardcover – April 14, 2015 by Nessa Carey New Book on “Junk DNA” Surveys the Functions of Non-Coding DNA Review by Casey Luskin Excerpt: “We now know that in some cases just a single base-pair change in an apparently irrelevant region of the genome … Effect and affect of a single base-pair change
PZ Myers is an atheistic biology teacher who believes in mutation-driven evolution. Myers thinks I am “crank” and he compared me to John A. Davison, who Myers also thinks is a crank. According to Myers, Davison was a crank for proposing a theory that Evolution was all due to chromosome rearrangements… Discussion of who’s the crank ensured … Chromosomal rearrangements and ecological adaptations
