Tag: proteins
Security Gates in the Cell
A key characteristic of life is active transport: control over what enters and exits the cell. Closer looks reveal exquisite “selectivity filters” with moving parts that make active transport work.
More Hints of Order in the Genome
Genomics has come a long way since the central dogma and junk DNA. If you expect to find reasons for things, you often do find them.
Crisis in the Chemistry of Origins
The impressive complexities of proteins, nucleic acids, and other biological molecules are presently developed in nature only in living things.
What Scientists Fear: Foreword to The Mystery of Life’s Origin
Perhaps scientists fear that acceptance of this conclusion would open the door to the possibility (or the necessity) of a supernatural origin of life.
Listen: Kirk Durston on Fantasy Science and Scientism
One example of fantasy science, according to Durston, is the multiverse.