Author asks: How can they believe this level of remote control just happened? Answer: It’s not so much that they believe it but they dare not question it. Academic riots don’t involve bloodshed. More like Cancelcide. Career-acid, for want of a better word.
Cell biology
New paper: Multicellularity did not follow a simple straight path
From the paper: “For example, do all lineages and clades share an ancestral developmental predisposition for multicellularity emerging from genomic and biophysical motifs shared from a last common ancestor, or are the multiple origins of multicellularity truly independent evolutionary events?” Stuart Newman is one of those The Third Way scientists seeking an alternative to sterile Darwinism.
Bacteria die screaming
LiveScience: Through necrosignaling, bacteria alert their swarming neighbors to the presence of a deadly threat, and thereby save the majority of the swarm (a bacterial colony that’s on the move).
The design of life in molecular machines
C. S. Lewis Society: In this video, Dr. Paul D. Ashby argues that the field of thermodynamics needs to move into the information age to understand how design is essential for creating more efficient machines like those in the cell.
Viruses called phages, researchers say, are in a grey zone between life and non-life
Researcher: “Typically, what separates life from non-life is to have ribosomes and the ability to do translation; that is one of the major defining features that separate viruses and bacteria, non-life and life,” Sachdeva said. “Some large phages have a lot of this translational machinery, so they are blurring the line a bit.”
The Frontline Doctors put some “plausible” mechanisms for Hydroxychloroquine on the table
In their July 28 seminar, the Frontline Doctors Group led by Dr Simone Gold, have put some plausible mechanisms for HCQ based cocktails on the table. These were noted on in an augmentation to an earlier post, but deserve headlining in their own right: Dr Frieden OP: >>I have found at Bit Chute, a July Read More…
Is topoisomerase another irreducibly complex cell component for ID folk to point to?
It’s an essential molecule that untangles the knots in DNA and, our friend notes, it is needed long before a cell has enough information to replicate itself.
It turns out that we all need those zombie microbes that live indefinitely and don’t really evolve
In the words of one researcher, “Our concept of how cells evolve goes out the window for this incredibly large biosphere.” And yet, we are told, “these almost-but-not-quite-dead cells play an important role in the production of methane, the degradation of the planet’s largest pool of organic carbon, and other processes.”
Origin of life specialist suggested that ID folk should focus on the ribosome
Harvard’s George Church: And if I were to be an intelligent design defender, that’s what I would focus on; how did the ribosome come to be?
Bacteria are smarter than we think
At Wired: As they cleared paths of food, the E.coli tended to move toward unexplored, broth-rich areas, which ultimately helped them evacuate the maze. It took about 10 hours for about 1 percent of the multiple generations of bacteria to collectively solve the puzzle. That may not sound fast, but it’s five times faster than if the organisms had just been swimming around randomly, says Phan.
Researchers have discovered more about the tiny packages cells use to move molecules around
From Florida State: They also showed that the clathrin coat could make a so-called “basket” shape, and one that scientists had thought the protein could not form, showing that clathrin assembly is more complicated than previously thought. … “We found new structures and patterns that really surprised us.”
And now, it turns out, some bacteria eat manganese
Researchers discovered this by accident: when the bacteria left manganese oxide in a dirty lab jar.
Cell death as intelligent design
ENST: “Cells contain self-destruction kits, like spies with poison pills for use if captured. The poison pills consist primarily of the caspase family of proteins.”
Billion-year-old Trichoplax has everything needed for a nervous system but no system
It’s almost like the nervous system is software that was never used, but that raises Forbidden Ideas, doesn’t it?
At New Scientist: A shortage of trace metals might have accounted for the development of complex cells
No wonder these fields tend to be marked by a lack of progress.