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Photo credit: Xenia Baknina, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Biology, Like Technology, Requires “Something More”

Even when formed to perfection, a violin will not “hale souls out of men’s bodies” unless a master musician draws the bow across the strings. Read More ›
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Your Body’s Secrets, Revealed in a New Series and a Companion Book

It may seem like a morbid thought, pondering the billions of ways something in your body could “go wrong,” fatally, and then “you’re dead.” Read More ›
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Woodpecker Is a Stunning Example of Irreducible Complexity

A partially functional woodpecker evolving to be a functional woodpecker would be evolutionary dead-end. Read More ›
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Photo: Escherichia coli, by Gene Drendel, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Rewriting Code of Life” Sounds a Lot Like Intelligent Design

Modifying the genetic code is easy. Right? It would have to be, under an evolutionary understanding. Read More ›
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Here’s the Venn Diagram from My Conversation with Denis Noble 

While preparing for the conversation, I created the diagram comparing the similarities and differences among three viewpoints. Read More ›
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Image: RNA polymerase, by Maria Voigt and PDB-101. This image is available under CC-BY-4.0 license. Attribution should be given to PDB-101 and Maria Voigt., CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Recurring Design Logic in Attenuation Mechanisms

Despite the striking parallels between these systems in terms of the design logic, these attenuation systems are not evolutionarily related to one another. Read More ›
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Photo: Taro leaf, by Avenue at Wikimedia Commons.

Green Creatures: The Intelligent Design of Plants

Emily Reeves notes the operation of photosystem II, “the only enzyme in nature that is known to be able to split a water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen." Read More ›
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Photo credit: Casey Luskin.

Just Got Back from the Summer Seminars

As always, this selective program was entirely cost free to participants, thanks to our generous supporters. Read More ›
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Advancing Biology Through an Engineering Lens

I spoke with physicist Dr. Brian Miller about the fruitful research that can result when engineering principles are applied to the study of biological systems. Read More ›
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Photo: E. coli, by Gene Drendel, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Engineered Complexity in the Microbial World

Many biological “adaptations” may involve the use of innate abilities or the disruption of existing functions, rather than the creation of entirely new ones. Read More ›

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