Tag: Ribosome
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.
Design in Living Things Goes Far Beyond Machines
René Descartes conceived of living things as complex machines, a concept now known as the “machine metaphor.”
Irreducible Complexity in Molecular Machine Assembly
We know that many molecular machines are irreducibly complex in their operation. Even more IC is the process of assembling them in the cell.
Nobel Prize Winner Cites the “Ingeniously Designed” Architecture of the Ribosome
In 2009, Israeli structural biologist Ada Yonath shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on the structure and function of the ribosome.