Tag: sodium
Liquid Harmony: How Our Bodies Manage Salt and Water
Left to their own devices, the laws of nature tend toward degradation and death, not life.
How We Balance Water and Sodium to Maintain Life
On their own, the laws of nature don’t tend toward life. To stay alive, living things utilize ingenious solutions.
Appreciating the Irreducibly Complex Design of Salmon Osmoregulation
Three main things must occur for the young salmon, called a smolt, to prepare for life in the salty ocean.
Nearly All of Evolution Is Best Explained by Engineering
Transposable elements modify gene regulation in maize to confer drought tolerance, alter flowering time, and enable plants to grow in toxic aluminum soils.
Blood Pressure — And Genuflecting to Evolution
Systems biologists assume for the sake of research that a biological system under investigation is optimally engineered.