Category: Life Sciences
An Intimate Reminder About What “Was Once Thought to Be Unnecessary ‘Junk’ DNA”
“Male mice grow ovaries instead of testes if they are missing a small region of DNA that doesn’t contain any genes,” reports the Francis Crick Institute.
The “Botched” Human Body, Revisited
As a systems architect, I’ve spent decades designing and implementing large and complex systems of information systems.
Note to Thomists: The Ear Is a Reverse Piano
James Hudspeth, of Rockefeller University, just won the Norwegian Academy of Science’s Kavli Prize in science.
Biophysicist Ken Dill: Protein Machines Are “Real Machines. That’s Not a Metaphor”
The implication of design, while no doubt unintended, is so powerful it almost doesn’t need to be spelled out.
Nathan Lents and the Wisdom of Testicles
He thinks they should be inside the body, not outside.