Tag: parasites
These Animals Know How to Self-Medicate
The “animals’ pharmacy” mainly aims at treating parasites and wounds using plants and insects.
Did U of Tokyo Just Solve the Mystery of Life’s Origin?
Physicist Brian Miller explains that nothing remotely this dramatic occurred in the experiment.
Fact Check: Did University of Tokyo Researchers Explain the Origin of Life?
The research paper avers, “These results support the capability of molecular replicators to spontaneously develop complexity through Darwinian evolution.”
Cinderella Story? Transposons Gain New Respect
Junk DNA has been getting redress for decades of ignominy. Now, retrotransposons and transposable elements may be next in line for a better reputation.
#6 Story of 2021: Scientific Paper on Repetitive Elements Slams “Junk DNA”
In the past, one of the most common rebuttals to ID was, “If life was designed, then why is over 90 percent of the genome composed of junk DNA?”