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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 ›
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 ›
Wawel-Castle
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Dembski, Ewert, and Intelligent Design in Polish: “A Game Changer”

Among our partners around the world, one of the finest, doing some of the most impressive work, is the En Arche Foundation in Poland. Read More ›
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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 ›
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 ›
Darwin's finches
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Natural Selection: A Conceptually Incoherent Term

As a schoolboy I remember being told that the surest way of finding out if any given English proposition made sense or not was to try to translate it into Latin, French, or German. Read More ›
DNA
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DNA Storage Goes Biological

DNA is already known to be an ideal storage medium. Why not use cells to do the hard work? Read More ›
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ID Made Sassy: A New Book for Young People

Douglas Ell's concept is a dialogue between Doubt and Reason, who sass each other merrily. Read More ›
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Biomimetics Moves STEM Education in an Intriguing Direction

An initiative by a major biomimetics lab to prepare students for careers in STEM introduces them to biological coding. Read More ›

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