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Cell biology

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 31, 2020
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Cell biology
Intelligent Design

Histones have been strongly conserved in archaea

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December 31, 2020
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Importantly, we show that some archaeal histone variants are ancient and have been maintained as distinct units for hundreds of millions of years. Our work suggests that complex combinatorial chromatin that uses histones as its building blocks exists outside eukaryotes and that the ancestor of eukaryotes might have already had complex chromatin. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 24, 2020
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Cell biology
Intelligent Design
Irreducible Complexity
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Not-yet-specialized cells seem to know where to go

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December 24, 2020
Cell biology, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
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Researchers: Tohoku University scientists have, for the first time, provided experimental evidence that cell stickiness helps them stay sorted within correct compartments during development. How tightly cells clump together, known as cell adhesion, appears to be enabled by a protein better known for its role in the immune system. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 21, 2020
Categories
Cell biology

Muscle fibers resemble entire tissues with many nuclei

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December 21, 2020
Cell biology
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Researcher: "Due to the heterogeneity of its nuclei, a single muscle cell can act almost like a tissue, which consists of a variety of very different cell types," explains Dr. Minchul Kim, a postdoctoral researcher in Birchmeier's team and one of the two lead authors of the study. "This enables the cell to fulfill its numerous tasks, like communicating with neurons or producing certain muscle proteins." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 21, 2020
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Cell biology
Intelligent Design
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Cells activate individual quality control responses

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December 21, 2020
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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Researcher: "Integrated stress response is like a city going through full lockdown," Yan said. "If you only have 10 cases, you don't want to come out and tell the city, 'Let's just hunker down and not do anything,' or shut down all the productivity. You want the city to have a system to evaluate the severity of the stress -- and to deal with it according to its severity. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 21, 2020
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Cell biology
Genomics
Intelligent Design
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Bacterium alters its genome to adapt to new conditions

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November 21, 2020
Cell biology, Genomics, Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Achromatium is special in many respects: It is 30,000 times larger than its "normal" counterparts that live in water and owing to its calcite deposits it is visible to the naked eye. It has several hundred chromosomes, which are most likely not identical. This makes Achromatium the only known bacterium with several different genomes. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 14, 2020
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Cell biology
Intelligent Design
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Cells ordered to commit suicide don’t necessarily die

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November 14, 2020
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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Isn’t that remarkable? The phenomenon that enables cells to avoid committing suicide when “ordered” to do so (apoptosis) is so old that it goes back to the common ancestor of flies and mice. How much time was there for such a complex system to evolve purely randomly, as in a Darwinian scheme? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 2, 2020
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Cell biology
Intelligent Design
Mind
Naturalism
Origin Of Life
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The philosopher and the biologist offer a “fantasy” of how Darwinism can create minds

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November 2, 2020
Cell biology, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Origin Of Life
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The problem isn’t with their believing that cells feature lots of intelligence but with their effort to equate human and cellular intelligence. Human intelligence is something quite different. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 27, 2020
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Cell biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
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If we need AlphaFold to figure out protein folding, how likely is protein folding to be a product of mere chance?

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October 27, 2020
Cell biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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We are told by many philosophers that life came to exist on Earth purely by chance. How likely is that, given the intricacy of the machinery that governs our bodies, such that someone needs to design AlphaFold to figure it out? Read More ›