Tag: chemotaxis
Recurring Design Logic in Gene Regulation
A feature of biology that has struck me over the years is the phenomenon of recurring design logic, across systems that do not appear to be related by descent.
Popular YouTube Science Educator Professes “Emotional” Response to “Amazing” Flagellum
In the video, engineer Destin Sandlin explains how he became captivated after watching an online animation of the bacterial flagellum.
Peer-Reviewed Paper Applies Systems Engineering to Bacterial Chemotaxis
The article further demonstrates how only a design-based framework yields significant insight into the higher-level organization of biological systems.
A Misguided Critique of Irreducible Complexity
Danaher’s critiques of irreducible complexity are poorly informed and based on misunderstandings of intelligent design and what its key defenders argue.
New BIO-Complexity Paper Details Complexity of Function and Assembly of Bacterial Flagellum
The author, Dean Schulz, an engineer with a PhD in computer science, takes a “bottom up” approach.