Tag: mitochondria
A Cell Makes “Decisions” — But if It’s Following a Material Blueprint, How Does It Do That?
Watching cells under a microscope, we sense familiarity with their challenges when they face puzzles. How is this possible if their nature is strictly physical?
The Formation of Our Digits Points to a Process with Foresight
Our digits are sculpted from a paddle-like structure in the embryo through the process of apoptosis.
Supreme Elegance: The Fine-Tuning of the Properties of Matter for Life on Earth
In the biochemical domain, nature is indeed, as Isaac Newton rightly claimed, “pleased with simplicity” and abhors “superfluous causes.”
Video: Life Can’t Exist Without Repair Mechanisms, and That’s a Problem for Origin-of-Life Theories
Following the replication of DNA, a daily barrage of DNA damage occurs during normal operating conditions.
New Paper Argues that Variant Genetic Codes Are Best Explained by Common Design
A popular argument for a universal common ancestor is the near-universality of the conventional genetic code.