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RNAPolymerase
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 ›
Platos-Revenge
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Sternberg Reveals the Truths that Give Life

Additional support for the plausibility of the immaterial nature of the genome can perhaps be found from implications of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem. Read More ›
Oriboros
Photo: Oriboros, by Matti Blume (CC BY-SA <//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photowalk,_Linz_(P1130856).jpg> or GFDL <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html>), via Wikimedia Commons.

Brian Miller: Circular Reasoning in Origin of Life Theories

Is origin of life research going round in circles, like the proverbial snake in pursuit of its own tail? Read More ›
Aplastodiscus_arildae_no_Parque_Estadual_de_Caparao_por_Lucas_Rosado_(03)
Photo credit: Lucas Rosado Mendonça, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Circular Reasoning in Origin of Life Research: Insights from a Recent Study on the Genetic Code

This study compared sequences of proteins in modern organisms to reconstruct ancestral proteins believed to reside in the last universal common ancestor (LUCA). Read More ›
071_Wild_marmot_at_Grand_Muveran_Nature_Reserve_Photo_by_Giles_Laurent
Photo credit: Giles Laurent, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Intentionality in Living Systems: What Does It Mean?

One historically dominant position on intentionality has been the Brentano thesis, proffered by 19th-century German philosopher and psychologist Franz Brentano. Read More ›
DNA
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Roundup of Functions for “Junk DNA” Supports the New RNA Gene Paradigm

The junk DNA paradigm may have caused us to miss the precise DNA that helps makes a species unique.  Read More ›
lab mouse
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More Jobs for “Junk” DNA

It turns out the mouse endogenous retrovirus L (MERVL) is essential for embryogenesis, according to a recently published article. Read More ›
Challenge to Origin of Life
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Long Story Short: The Origin of Replication and the Information Sequence Problem

As an undergraduate at UC San Diego, I attended a seminar taught by Stanley Miller, the famous chemist who put origin-of-life research on the map. Read More ›
lightning
lightning
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The Electric Cell: More Synergy with Physics Found in Cellular Coding

Imaging techniques down to the picometer scale are permitting detection of previously unknown alliances of cellular software with electrostatics and mechanics. Read More ›
topoisomerase
Image: Topoisomerase II, by Discovery Institute.

New Animation on Topoisomerase Demonstrates Irrationality of Denying Design Evidence in Biology

Replication or transcription of DNA stresses the macromolecule, resulting in supercoiling. Topoisomerase II relieves the stress. Read More ›

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