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Photo: Robert Brown, 1855, via Wikimedia Commons.

Embrace the Chaos: How Cells Harness Disorder for Function

In three classes of examples, cells are shown to manipulate chaotic forces toward functional purposes. Read More ›
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Image: Bacterial flagellar motor, from Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media.

Harvard Biophysicist Howard Berg, Flagellum’s Discoverer, Lives On

More than any other scientist, he brought to light the intricate biophysics occurring at the molecular scale in living organisms. Read More ›
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Image credit: David S. Goodsell, RCSB Protein Data Bank. doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-042.

The New Yorker Takes “A Journey to the Center of Our Cells”

There’s a problem that biologists have long pondered — how do proteins find other proteins within the cell that they are supposed to interact with? Read More ›
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Photo: James Tour, via YouTube (screenshot).

More on James Tour’s Abiogenesis YouTube Series

Brian Miller discusses the Levinthal paradox of the interactome, the long odds of blind processes assembling the first cell, and the challenge of cell death. Read More ›
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Image credit: Illustra Media.

Life Fights Entropy with Intelligent Design

Consider: the best minds in science and engineering are trying to approach the capabilities of bacteria. Read More ›
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Measuring Surprise — A Frontier of Design Theory

The carvings look sustained (there are many of them) and deliberate, unlike creases created by splitting and pitting of surfaces over ages. Read More ›
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Dazzling Acts in the Cell Circus

If life didn’t depend on these acts by cellular organelles and molecules, we would consider them death-defying performances in the greatest show on earth. Read More ›
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Image: A scene from The Information Enigma, via Discovery Institute.

Punctuated Equilibria Is Back, but Still Magical

Calling it by a new name doesn’t change the essence of a theory relying on chance. Read More ›

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