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Whales, Bees, and Viruses: Intelligent Design from Biggest to Smallest 

What’s bigger than a blue whale? Smaller than a virus? At the extremes and everywhere in between, life shows ingenious design. Read More ›
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Small Wonders: Design in Tiny Creatures

Miniature designs often require more foresight and delicate engineering than large designs. Examples are abundant in the living world. Read More ›
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New Science Uprising Episode: Evolution, Mutations, and “Fooling the Laymen”

The idea that random genetic mutations lead to wondrous, creative innovations is so influential that it forms the premise of a movie franchise, X-Men, that has grossed $6 billion. Read More ›
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New Science Uprising Episode: Evolution, Mutations, and “Fooling the Laymen”

The idea that random genetic mutations lead to wondrous, creative innovations is so influential that it forms the premise of a movie franchise, X-Men, that has grossed $6 billion. Read More ›
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Photo: Douglas Axe, in a scene from the series Science Uprising “DNA: The Programmer.”

New Science Uprising Episode: “Programming Without a Programmer”?

To evolve a protein, Douglas Axe draws a comparison to seeking out — blindfolded! — a particular atom secreted away somewhere in the Milky Way. Read More ›
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Photo: Nobel Prize in Chemistry, by Adam Baker, via Flickr.

#5 of Our Top Stories of 2018: It’s Not “Evolution” — A Nobel Prize for Engineering Enzymes

In effect, protein engineers are using the power of random change plus intelligent design to see what if anything will improve function. Read More ›
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Photo: Nobel Prize, by Adam Baker, via Flickr (cropped).

It’s Not “Evolution” — A Nobel Prize for Engineering Enzymes

In effect, protein engineers are using the power of random change plus intelligent design to see what if anything will improve function. Read More ›
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How the 2018 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry Harnessed Intelligent Design

There is one point of confusion in descriptions of this year’s prize winners. It’s the talk of “directed evolution.” Read More ›
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Intelligent Design?

The problem these efforts face in the lab is exactly the problem faced by Darwin’s evolutionary mechanism in the wild. Read More ›
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Image: NPCs (nuclear pore complex), from Origin: Design, Chance and the First Life on Earth, courtesy of Illustra Media.

How the Nucleus Guards Its Gates

Details of the nuclear pore complex, one of the largest and most complex protein systems in the cell, come into sharper focus as a team watches how it validates a messenger RNA. Read More ›

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