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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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Aeon: “The Cell Is Not a Factory” — It’s Far More Complex

Viewing the cell’s nucleus as keeping a “collaborative notebook” implies record-keeping to maintain order and to act toward a purpose. Read More ›
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Something Is Missing from the Materialist Framework

Scientists have learned over the centuries that when a fundamental theoretical impasse is encountered, we do not blame nature. Read More ›
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Revising the Linnaean System: Where to Locate Viruses? And the Problem with Mitochondria

The venue for a remarkable call for government censorship of science was a peer-reviewed biology journal. Read More ›
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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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Nuclear Pore Complex Comes into Focus

Super-resolution microscopy is letting us peer even closer into the cell’s secrets, revealing awesome wonders. Read More ›
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Molecular Machine Safari

Take a tour of molecular machines working in the cell and see what new things scientists have found out about them. Read More ›
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Excerpt — The Infinite Complexity of Cells

The unique powers of cells — their “demonic catalytic powers” — and their fitness to play their unique role as the building blocks of all life are a wonder. Read More ›
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Allostery: How Cells Do Remote Control

Cells have perfected action at a distance: not by magic, but by control of distant sites through carefully arranged functional intermediates. Read More ›
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Journal Prints “Intelligent Design”! But…

The phrase “intelligent design” is almost verboten in today’s science journals. Watch how an evolutionist got away with it — with the journal’s blessing. Read More ›

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