Tag: molecular machines
With an Assist from Nature, DNA Travels the Globe
Life makes its way around the world using nonliving transportation systems, seeding the world with complex specified information.
Design for ATP Extends Beyond the Rotary Engine
New discoveries explore the astonishing efficiency of the cell’s rotary engine ATP synthase, and describe new roles for other motors that deliver ATP.
On Fantasy in Modern Science
An attribute of a good sci-fi story is that it should open new vistas for the imagination while, at the same time, not requiring the reader to put up with the preposterous.
With Kenneth Miller, Behe’s Would-Be Nemesis, History Repeats Itself
The Brown University biologist is still out there, reassuring the world that unguided “evolutionary mechanisms” comfortably explain the wonders of biology.
A Dentist in the Sahara: Doug Axe on the Rarity of Proteins Is Decisively Confirmed
In a previous article I described the evidence that cooption faces insurmountable mathematical challenges in explaining the origins of such complex molecular machines as the bacterial flagellum.