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Cell biology
If “sophisticated cellular machinery” yields an “inherent survival mechanism,” aren’t we closer to creationism than to Darwin?
These unexpected findings … stand as strong evidence against the common argument that prions are merely yeast “diseases” …
From The First Gene: Chapter 8: “Redundant, low-informational selfordering is not organization.”
Unwanted cross-reactions are invariably ignored in these celebrated models.
ID Foundations 15(c) — A FAQ on Front-Loading, thanks to Genomicus
Onlookers, Geno concludes for the moment with FAQ’s: ____________________ Geno: >> A Testable ID Hypothesis: Front-loading, part C In the last two articles on front-loading, I explained what the front-loading hypothesis is all about and some research questions we can ask from a front-loading perspective. This article will be an FAQ about the front-loading hypothesis. Read More…
Michael Behe on Lenski’s lambda virus: “Darwinian evolution took a little step sideways and two big steps backwards.”
“To me, the much more significant results of the new paper, although briefly mentioned, were not stressed as they deserved to be. “
ID Foundations 15 (b): Front-loading as a testable hypothesis cont’d — a guest post by Genomicus
Genomicus continues his presentation of the front-loading hypothesis: ___________ Geno: >>In my previous article on the subject of front-loading, I described the front-loading hypothesis and what it proposes. I outlined three testable predictions generated by the front-loading hypothesis. In this article, we’ll see how the front-loading hypothesis can lead us to numerous research questions, and Read More…
A process sequence chart view of the ribosome in action — a guest post by EP
For some months now, I have been having a behind the scenes correspondence with a regular viewer of UD, whom we shall call EP. He works with industrial robots, and has been fascinated by the way the ribosome works as a nano-scale automated machine cell. Accordingly, a process sequence diagram (‘map”) has been developed, based Read More…
Can slime molds think? Computer scientists say maybe
“Scientists in Japan say that the mould shows unlikely signs of intelligence.”
Don’t put down money on yer cloned woolly mamoth just yet …
It’d be nice, but maybe not this year …
Popcorn: watching kinesin in action, as we digest that Christmas turkey and pudding . . .
Sometimes, seeing is believing. Here is a nice, short summary of the kinesin microtubule highway “walking truck” protein in action: [youtube lLxlBB9ZBj4] This vid gives a bit of context: [youtube 8RULvE9rw6Y] Especially notice the role played by Brownian motion, and that played by ATP. So, post turkey and pudding vid no 3: ATP Synthase in Read More…
Video animation of RNA interference (RNAi)
Video animation of RNA interference (RNAi)
Human immune system found to take bacteria prisoners
The researchers discovered the caging behaviour with Shigella, a bacterium that causes sometimes lethal diarrhoea in humans and other primates.
The First Gene: selection for biofunction is required prior to the existence of a living organism.
Whether in an RNA World, Peptide World, Lipid World, or other composomal Metabolism-First model
Starving bacteria fight antibiotics harder?
“The protective mechanism is controlled by the starvation-signaling stringent response (SR),”
Can a rodent that simply can’t get cancer offer paths to better treatments?
If the mole rat lived in underground isolation for so long, how did it develop such disease resistance? With humans, for example, isolation from a disease is precisely what makes it deadly.