Tag: Brownian motion
Embrace the Chaos: How Cells Harness Disorder for Function
In three classes of examples, cells are shown to manipulate chaotic forces toward functional purposes.
Harvard Biophysicist Howard Berg, Flagellum’s Discoverer, Lives On
More than any other scientist, he brought to light the intricate biophysics occurring at the molecular scale in living organisms.
The New Yorker Takes “A Journey to the Center of Our Cells”
There’s a problem that biologists have long pondered — how do proteins find other proteins within the cell that they are supposed to interact with?
More on James Tour’s Abiogenesis YouTube Series
Brian Miller discusses the Levinthal paradox of the interactome, the long odds of blind processes assembling the first cell, and the challenge of cell death.
Life Fights Entropy with Intelligent Design
Consider: the best minds in science and engineering are trying to approach the capabilities of bacteria.