Tag: Ribosome
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.
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.