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Paper Digest: The Cell as an Embedded Computing System

This paper is an important illustration of how intelligent design theory can be applied at a high level in the academic setting. Read More ›
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Why High School Biology Made Me Angry (And Why I Like It So Much Better Now)

Your own body has something like 30 trillion cells in it. That’s 30 trillion large cities’ worth of complexity. Read More ›
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Harvesting Clones to Live Forever Would Be Monstrous

Of course, Zhavoronkov’s lab is in China — the land where medical and other ethics might go to die. 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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DNA Packing: One of the Supreme Wonders of Nature

The cell packs two meters of DNA into a 10-micron nucleus. How? The machinery is as intelligently designed as the genome itself. Read More ›
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#2 Story of 2021: Caltech Finds Amazing Role for Noncoding DNA

There’s more function in the “junk” than imagined. Caltech finds a significant role: maintaining territories and compartments, and guiding components. Read More ›
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Caltech Finds Amazing Role for Noncoding DNA

There’s more function in the “junk” than imagined. Caltech finds a significant role: maintaining territories and compartments, and guiding components. Read More ›
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New Studies Reveal the Exquisite Designs of the Nucleus and its DNA

You may have heard that all the DNA in your body, if stretched out, could reach to the Sun and back more than 70 times. 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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Cells Use Loop Extrusion to Keep DNA Optimized

A paper illustrates the action of DNA loop extrusion processes, which serve multiple functions to maintain the genome, with an interesting graphic: gears. Read More ›

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