The researchers say that their results “challenge the notion that DNA replication is uniform and consistent”
Cell biology
The amazing energy efficiency of cells
A science writer compares the cell to human inventions and finds that it is indeed amazingly energy-efficient.
In addition to DNA, our cells have an instruction language written in sugar
Of course it all just tumbled into existence and “natural selection” somehow organized everything. As if.
Motor nerves turn out to need “expert guidance”
And it all happens without intelligence of any kind? “Expert guidance” without experts?
At Quanta: Cells find “optimal” solutions, not just good ones
What then becomes of “bad design” arguments, like those of Nathan Lents? In a transient world, any solution can only be optimal for a given life, as it must be factored against other lives.
Reset! Different segs of virus genome can exist in different cells but work together
Researchers: It has long been believed that all of the genome segments must move together from cell to cell to cause an infection. But the new study shows this is not the case.
In Nature: Cells have “secret conversations”
We say this a lot: That’s a lot of information to have simply come into being by natural selection acting on random mutation (Darwinism). It’s getting not only ridiculous but obviously ridiculous.
Researchers: Helpful gut microbes send messages to their hosts’ immune systems
If the bacterial strategy is clearly identified, they should look for non-helpful microbes that have found a way to copy it (horizontal gene transfer?)
Oops. “Functionless vestige” of evolution turns out to be better strategy
For centuries, researchers knew that Euglenids, a diversified family of aquatic unicellular organisms, could reshape their bodies in any number of elegant ways but no one knew why they did it. Some researchers think they now know: “Amongst biophysicists, metaboly was thought to be a way to swim in a fluid, where these cells live,” […]
Fetal development seen as work the work of an intelligent artisan
Like blowing glass? Biology’s language is poorly adapted to Darwinism.
Cells and proteins use sugars to talk to one another
Cells are like Neanderthal man. They get smarter every time we run into them. And just think, it all just tumbled into existence by natural selection acting on random mutations (Darwinism) too…
Researchers: First animal cell was not simple; it could “transdifferentiate”
From the paper: “… these analyses offer no support for the homology of sponge choanocytes and choanoflagellates, nor for the view that the first multicellular animals were simple balls of cells with limited capacity to differentiate.”
Michael Behe: How to tell if scientists are bluffing
Behe: :Darwin’s mechanism of random mutation and natural selection strains to explain even the very simplest molecular example of cooperation (called a “disulfide bond”: Yet we are told that Darwinism explains all the complex machinery.
Researchers: “profound yet intuitive: Every species has evolved backup plans”
To study this “interactome,” researchers collecting data on 9 million protein interactions among species: The scientists studied 1,840 species – from bacteria to primates – to understand how evolution built life forms that could survive in the face of natural adversities. What they discovered was profound yet intuitive: Every species has evolved backup plans that […]
Could the 2.1 billion-year-old organism have been like a slime mold?
The behavior of the slime mold (if that’s what it is) sounds altogether too modern for Dr. Cohen’s liking. That’s understandable. See, for example, “Is an amoeba smarter than your computer? (yes, in certain respects, it is) The trouble is, many forms of behaviour, like nest-sharing and parental care, have been found earlier than expected. We shall see.