Tag: protein
Water Is a Problem, and Your Body Has an Ingenious Solution
The sodium-potassium pump is an innovation that allows your cells to combat the forces of nature and in doing so, prevents disaster.
Revising the Linnaean System: Where to Locate Viruses? And the Problem with Mitochondria
The venue for a remarkable call for government censorship of science was a peer-reviewed biology journal.
All Living Systems Must Process Energy, Store and Utilize Information, and Replicate
Louis Pasteur showed that what appeared to be life springing forth from nonliving matter was actually life emerging from exceedingly small living organisms.
In Life, Not One Code but Many
It would be as ridiculous to lump all of these into a single genetic code as it would be to lump Morse Code into the genetic code.
New Studies Reveal the Exquisite Designs of the Nucleus and its DNA
You may have heard that all the DNA in your body, if stretched out, could reach to the Sun and back more than 70 times.