Tag: mitochondria
Compact Factory Optimizes Shape for Efficiency — A New Level of Intelligent Design in Life
A microbe was found to organize its electron transport machinery in a way that bends the membrane for optimum energy utilization.
On the Irreducible Complexity of Sperm Cells
Human reproduction is perhaps the quintessential example of teleology in biology.
Engineering Language Enters Biology — The Case of the Endosome
An automated engineering system presupposes a designer with foresight and a mind that understands how to make things work.
Why High School Biology Made Me Angry (And Why I Like It So Much Better Now)
Your own body has something like 30 trillion cells in it. That’s 30 trillion large cities’ worth of complexity.
Mitochondria Promoted to Information Processing Systems
The label “powerhouses of the cell” was too simplistic for the many tasks performed every second by these computing, networking, signaling, regulating wonders.