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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 ›
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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
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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 ›
topoisomerase
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Teleology in Biology — Our Topoisomerase Webinar Is Now Up

Materialists want us to twist our minds into knots: we’re supposed to describe a world of purpose and direction as if it had no purpose and direction. Read More ›
topoisomerase
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The Amazing Topoisomerase Enzyme: New Molecular Machine Animation from Discovery Institute

Let’s briefly explore one of these crucial enzymes, topoisomerase II, which is the video's specific focus. Read More ›
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For Darwin Day, Topoisomerase Webinar With Biochemist Joe Deweese

This webinar will premiere a new molecular machine animation on the topoisomerase enzyme. Read More ›
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Nature Reviews Genetics — Pseudogene Function Is “Prematurely Dismissed”

As Seth W. Cheetham and his co-authors put it, biology suffers from “demotivation into exploring pseudogene function by the a priori assumption that they are functionless.” Read More ›
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In Arguments for Intelligent Design, Definitions and Assumptions Are Important

Think of a situation where you have to crack the code on a bank vault, with many dials in the code, say 150, each specifying 1 out of 10 digits. Read More ›

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