Tag: cytoplasm
Embrace the Chaos: How Cells Harness Disorder for Function
In three classes of examples, cells are shown to manipulate chaotic forces toward functional purposes.
Aeon: “The Cell Is Not a Factory” — It’s Far More Complex
Viewing the cell’s nucleus as keeping a “collaborative notebook” implies record-keeping to maintain order and to act toward a purpose.
Something Is Missing from the Materialist Framework
Scientists have learned over the centuries that when a fundamental theoretical impasse is encountered, we do not blame nature.
Revising the Linnaean System: Where to Locate Viruses? And the Problem with Mitochondria
The venue for a remarkable call for government censorship of science was a peer-reviewed biology journal.
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?