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Photo: E. coli bacteria, living a better life, by Eric Erbe, digital colorization by Christopher Pooley, both of USDA, ARS, EMU., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Engineering and Evolution in the Microbial World

This year’s Conference on Engineering in Living Systems (CELS) is going on right now, exploring design principles at work in living things. Read More ›
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Engineering Brings Life and Vice Versa

An uplifting video about a life-saving invention encapsulates several running themes about intelligent design, with only one brief flaw. Read More ›
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Where Biology and Engineering Intersect: CELS 2023 Applications Are Open Now!

This is not a conference for listening to ID thought leaders (though many will be there), but an opportunity to jump in and become part of the conversation. Read More ›
click beetle
Photo: A click beetle, by Sarefo, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

New Engineering Ideas from Biology

The 2023 Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, organized by the CSC's Engineering Research Group, is set for June 1-3 in Denton, Texas. Read More ›
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Revolution as Scientists Treat Living Systems as Engineered

This sea change in perspective is rapidly accelerating progress in experimental biology. Read More ›
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irreducible complexity
Image: Bacterial flagellar motor, from Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media.

Bacterial Flagellum Demonstrates the Explanatory and Predictive Power of Engineering Models

Dean Schulz investigated the design of the flagellum with a method that could be described as groundbreaking. Read More ›
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Image credit: Tim Reckmann, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Year in Review: Three Major Advances for Intelligent Design

The situation resembles a poorly constructed dam holding back water that is continuously rising. Read More ›
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Photo: A fruit fly, by Macroscopic Solutions, via Flickr.

Studies on Insect Wings Validate Engineering Models for Adaptation

The “long-winged” phenotype is generated if the environmental conditions deteriorate due to reduced food supply or overpopulation. Read More ›
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Photo: Gulls of the family Laridae, by Oleg Bor, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Design Connection in Biological Tracking Systems

If organisms resulted from haphazard undirected processes, their design constraints would be few and highly flexible. Read More ›
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Engineers in the Systems Biology Revolution

Systems biology is taking the biological world by storm, an approach that treats biological systems as optimally or near-optimally engineered systems. Read More ›

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