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How Do Mitotic Errors Affect Cell Proliferation?

This review furthers the argument that I have developed elsewhere that the eukaryotic cell division cycle is elegantly engineered and irreducibly complex. Read More ›
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brain
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Brain Imaging Shows Intelligence Uses the Whole Brain

A focus on specific regions like the prefrontal cortex can mislead. When we are thinking, we use brain-wide connections between many parts of the brain at once. Read More ›
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Photo: Anaphase, root cells, by Radosław.pyt, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Engineered Elegance: Generating the Wait Anaphase Signal

Even a single unattached kinetochore is sufficient to trigger the wait anaphase signal, which inhibits activation of the APC/C that drives entry into anaphase. Read More ›
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Same-Handed Molecules Are an “Overarching Design Principle” in Life, Say Researchers

Without foresight to solve heterochiral incidents, a primordial cell would quickly perish even if, against all odds, it began homochiral.  Read More ›
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Behe: Magnetotactic Bacteria and Other Micro-Wonders

These bugs could point the way to a treatment for cancerous tumors, thanks to their natural ability to maneuver by sensing the Earth’s magnetic field. Read More ›
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Photo: Cancer cells, by National Cancer Institute.

Is the INK4a/ARF Overlap a Settled Example of Poor Design?

Dr. DeBenedictis’s basic argument is that there is a section of the human genome where two genes overlap, both of which are important for suppressing tumors. Read More ›

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