Tag: Nature Communications
Homeostasis: How Active Maintenance Showcases Intelligent Design
Can you think of an un-designed process that employs external machinery to maintain the state of another machine?
Latest Acts in the Origin-of-Life Circus
Leading lights in origin-of-life research share their work and thoughts in a series of open-access articles about chemical evolution.
Dazzling Acts in the Cell Circus
If life didn’t depend on these acts by cellular organelles and molecules, we would consider them death-defying performances in the greatest show on earth.
Membrane Channels Show Astonishing Specificity
The “selectivity filters” in membrane channels of living cells are able to discriminate between very similar molecules or atoms using complex mechanisms.
How the Nucleus Guards Its Gates
Details of the nuclear pore complex, one of the largest and most complex protein systems in the cell, come into sharper focus as a team watches how it validates a messenger RNA.