Tag: amino acids
Can New Proteins Evolve?
What enables a long chain of linked amino acids to perform highly specific molecular functions with machine-like precision?
Purifying Bad Results: How Origin-of-Life Researchers Cheat via “Relay Synthesis”
This is not a question of scale — even if the “chemist’s flask” were the entire Earth.
Tonight, New “Long Story Short” Video Delivers a Dose of Reality for Origin-of-Life Researchers
In the time of the early Earth, Airgas, the supplier from which the researchers obtained their materials, was not around.
By Design — How Pearls Get Their Luster
The highly valued optical properties of pearls come from sophisticated processes of biomineralization involving proteins and crystals.
Cilium and Intraflagellar Transport: More Irreducibly Complex than Ever
Another of Michael Behe’s molecular machines gets an update. The details are even more fascinating than originally described.