The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.

We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.

When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There's something that might be called the 'graduate student syndrome'; graduate students hardly believe they can make a discovery.

We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +'s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +'s.

If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.