Tag: Ribosome
Natural Machinery Operates Without Intervention; But How?
We’re going to need a new philosophy: one that can handle realities the Elizabethans and Victorians could never have imagined.
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.”
Allostery: How Cells Do Remote Control
Cells have perfected action at a distance: not by magic, but by control of distant sites through carefully arranged functional intermediates.
Why the Design in Living Things Goes Far Beyond Machinery
French philosopher René Descartes conceived of living things as complex machines, a concept now known as the “machine metaphor.”
Modern Software and Biological Organisms: Object-Oriented Design
Let’s consider the eye, which is but one of many subsystems (along with the brain, heart, liver, lungs, etc.) in higher animals that coordinate their tasks to keep an organism alive.