Tag: embryos
Scientists Are Close to Creating Human Embryos from Stem Cells
Once again, biotechnology is racing ahead of our capacity to intellectually digest what is happening.
Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Irreducible Complexity
The first exhibit is Lenski’s long-term evolution experiment, in which, after some 33,000 generations, bacterial cells evolved the ability to grow on citrate.
More Jobs for “Junk” DNA
It turns out the mouse endogenous retrovirus L (MERVL) is essential for embryogenesis, according to a recently published article.
Harvesting Clones to Live Forever Would Be Monstrous
Of course, Zhavoronkov’s lab is in China — the land where medical and other ethics might go to die.
Mama Bear Apologetics Takes on Richard Dawkins
Dawkins invokes the beautiful order evident in the murmuration of bird flocks as evidence that complexity can evolve from simple algorithmic rules.