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Richard-Sternberg
Photo: Richard Sternberg, via Science Uprising.

A Diffident Revolutionary

In a meeting with colleagues at Discovery Institute in 2024, Richard Sternberg was sketching his thoughts on a whiteboard. Read More ›
Richard-Sternberg
Photo: Richard Sternberg, via Science Uprising.

Spooked by Sternberg: From the Introduction to Plato’s Revenge

All familiar thinking about the genome assumes that it is, of course, purely material. From this premise, biologist Richard Sternberg radically departs. 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 ›
Schizosaccharomyces
Photo: Schizosaccharomyces octosporus, by Jon Houseman, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Documentation for Dr. Dan

We hope Rutgers biologist Dan Stern Cardinale finds these citations of interest. Read More ›
interactome
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The Interactome Multiplies Specified Complexity

No longer think of proteins as isolated parts in a cell. Think of them as friends networking and participating together in a community. Read More ›
clathrin cage
Photo: Clathrin cage, by Mazuraan, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Cell Vesicles Wear Sophisticated Coats, Defying Unguided Evolutionary Explanations

These coats, and the accessory proteins that build them, attach them to vesicles, and disassemble them, exhibit irreducible complexity. Read More ›
budding yeast
Photo: Budding yeast, by Mogana Das Murtey and Patchamuthu Ramasamy [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Yeast Gives Evidence of “Genes-in-Waiting”

Professor Carvunis stressed that the genetic patterns she is studying do not fit with the evolutionary theory she learned “since I was an undergraduate.” Read More ›
Mammoth
Image credit: Thomas Quine, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

#7 Story of 2022: Mammoth Support for Devolution

The more science progresses, the more hapless Darwin seems. Consider woolly mammoth DNA. Read More ›
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coronavirus
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Listen: Demonizers and Dehumanizers

John West urges supporters of vaccinations to meet the other side not with insults but with reasoned discourse and scientific evidence. Read More ›
Mammoth
Image credit: Thomas Quine, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Mammoth Support for Devolution

The more science progresses, the more hapless Darwin seems. Consider woolly mammoth DNA. Read More ›

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