Tag: viruses
Why AlphaFold Has Not Solved the Protein-Folding Problem
The online database AlphaFold represents an amazing breakthrough by any measure of the word “breakthrough.”
What Is It Like to Be a Spider?
A recent research article from Germany has made quite a splash in the popular media and raises some very interesting questions about animal minds.
Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals
Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too.
Eric Bapteste on External Genetic Change In “Age-Distorters”
Species are surrounded by other species (often sharing the same body), and therefore may interfere with one another’s fitness.
Junk No Longer: ERVs Are “Integral” and “Important Components” of Immune Responses
It’s another example of a paper that sounds like it could have been written by a proponent of intelligent design.