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Cell biology

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Denyse O'Leary
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October 1, 2020
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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Michael Denton’s new book calls our cells a “third infinity” of information

Denyse O'Leary
October 1, 2020
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
Michael Denton: "In the seventeenth century Christina, Queen of Sweden, upon hearing René Descartes insist that organisms are analogous to machines, is said to have retorted by saying of a mechanical clock, “See to it that it produces offspring.” Christina’s challenge has yet to be met." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 14, 2020
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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Complete structure of the world’s smallest turbine, ATP, now described

Denyse O'Leary
September 14, 2020
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
Ask a Darwinist and he’ll tell you that “natural selection, acting on random mutation” caused all that to just swish into existence. As if. If it took so much intelligence to understand the intricacy of the system, it should be no surprise if it took some intelligence to create it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 3, 2020
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design, speciation
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Researchers: How two bacteria of different species become one

Denyse O'Leary
September 3, 2020
Cell biology, Intelligent Design, speciation
Researcher: “They mix their machinery to survive or do metabolism, and that’s kind of extraordinary, because we always assumed that each and every organism has its own independent identity and machinery,” said Papoutsakis. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 31, 2020
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Cell biology, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Could bacteria have survived a trip from Earth to Mars?

Denyse O'Leary
August 31, 2020
Cell biology, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
Some see this as evidence that the universe is teeming with life on numberless planets. But what if we find fossil bacteria on Mars with genetics eerily similar to the ones we have on Earth? That could end up undermining such claims. But we shall see. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 30, 2020
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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How cells can travel long distances accurately through the human body

Denyse O'Leary
August 30, 2020
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
At Phys.org: As an example, a white blood cell working its way to a wound upon finding a fork in the road would choose the path with the most or newest chemoattractants after it breaks them down in both directions. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 29, 2020
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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And now: Remote control mechanisms in cells

Denyse O'Leary
August 29, 2020
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 25, 2020
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Cell biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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New paper: Multicellularity did not follow a simple straight path

Denyse O'Leary
August 25, 2020
Cell biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 22, 2020
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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Viruses called phages, researchers say, are in a grey zone between life and non-life

Denyse O'Leary
August 22, 2020
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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." Read More ›
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August 16, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Cell biology, Medicine, rhetoric
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The Frontline Doctors put some “plausible” mechanisms for Hydroxychloroquine on the table

kairosfocus
August 16, 2020
Academic Freedom, Cell biology, Medicine, rhetoric

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 28 Frontline Doctors seminar which describes several mechanisms of action. Accordingly, I take liberty to annotate a screenshot, summarising several mechanisms of action described by these Doctors [cf. here for their references], but which are hard to find because of now almost pervasive censorship: I add, that the above suggests a fairly similar viral attack process to the West Nile Virus (which is also an Read More ›