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E. coli bacteria
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.

The Tragedy of Eukaryote Evolution

Think of all the frustrated longings, misunderstandings, jealousy, and more entailed by the fact that males and females constitute separate genders. Read More ›
red blood cells
red blood cells
Image credit: Red blood cells, Gerd Altmann via Pixabay.

Shall We Be Darwin’s Yes-Men?

Around 1970 Michael Denton was a young researcher at Kings College London, thinking about how mammalian red blood cells could become anucleate. Read More ›
DNA
Image credit: Reimund Bertrams via Pixabay.

Doctor’s Diary: The Wonder of Your Body’s Genetic Instructions

Imagine the New York Public Library cutting every manual in half daily, or more often, and sending every month entire halves to a library in London. Read More ›
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Photo: Drosophila melanogaster, an engaging fly, by Sanjay Acharya / CC BY-SA.

The “Why” of the Fly “Y”: Reflections on “Junk” DNA

Let us give some thought to the Y chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster, that engaging fly which is the bond-servant of genetics. Read More ›
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The Hidden City

Picture a hidden city, that though it cannot be seen, is everywhere. Sound crazy? It’s real. Read More ›
Astronomical Clock
Photo at the top: Prague astronomical clock, by Andrew Shiva, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Watch on a Heath — But What a Watch!

Recently I had the opportunity to see Prague’s famed astronomical clock, the oldest still-working astronomical clock in the world. It is truly phenomenal. Read More ›
Workhorse of the Cell
nanotechnology
Image source: “The Workhorse of the Cell: Kinesin,” via Discovery Institute.

Chemical Affinity, Motor Proteins: Good Questions from a Reader

About the movement of organelles: There are molecular motor proteins that haul them around! Read More ›
Falcon_eye
Photo: A falcon’s eye, by Oussama dzlion [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

Modern Software and Biological Organisms: Object-Oriented Design

Let’s consider the eye, which is but one of many subsystems (along with the brain, heart, liver, lungs, etc.) in higher animals that coordinate their tasks to keep an organism alive. Read More ›
Junk DNA
Photo credit: Hongtao Chen, Princeton University (screen shot), via EurekAlert!

Princeton Researchers Watch “Junk DNA” at Work

In “real time” they show the function of an enhancer in switching a gene from off to on. Read More ›
spliceosome
Image: Closer look at the spliceosome, by Alessandra Magistrato, via Eurekalert!

Inside the Machine Room of the Nucleus

The nucleus is a beehive of activity, where information is not just stored but processed, protected, transcribed, and duplicated by highly complex machines. Read More ›

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