Category: Cell biology

Video: The Dennis Noble lecture in Suzhou China on physiology and Neo-Darwinian evolutionary biology . . . N.B. revolutionary, transforming ideas and facts

Between Sal C and Nullasalus, this has come up: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt Paper can be read here. Also cf. The Music of Life sourcebook, here. A key step in the reasoning: Noble’s pivotal point in light of his detailed argument: This is meant to support a thread of discussion, so kindly comment here.… more

Was four-stranded, ‘quadruple helix’ DNA designed or mutated?

‘Quadruple helix’ DNA seen in human cells Balasubramanian’s group has been pursuing a four-stranded version of the molecule (DNA) that scientists have produced in the test tube now for a number of years. It is called the G-quadruplex. The “G” refers to guanine, one of the four chemical groups, or “bases”, that hold DNA together… more

Vid: Excellent demo reel of cellular animation

From 2012 XVIVO more

Evidence for an Engineered Universe

In the next video for the Engineering and Metaphysics conference, we have our keynote speaker, Walter Bradley, author of The Mystery of Life’s Origin (the book which kicked off the Intelligent Design movement). Here Bradley presents an overview of the cosmological case for design. Lots of interesting information from the man who started it all!… more

The Design of the Simplest Self-Replicator

The first video from the Engineering and Metaphysics conference is from Arminius Mignea. His talk is about self-replication, and what is really required for self-replication to occur. Mignea reviews current attempts at self-replication, and shows the minimal structures needed for it to occur. The slides for the talk are available here. Enjoy! more

Does anyone know what to make of this 2010 Nature paper?

According to which bacteria give to charity? more

Sat nite at the movies: Great three D animation of the cell

“In the modern era, computer animation has brought this world to life and made it accessible in a way that it never has been before. ” more

On the Impossibility of Abiogenesis

Modern science takes for granted that the naturalistic origin of life, called “abiogenesis” or “chemical evolution” or “pre-biotic evolution” is extremely improbable but not impossible. “Life” here means a single self-reproducing and self-sustaining biological cell. Science claims that life can arise from inorganic matter through natural processes. This unsupported claim is based on the conviction… more

New role for RNA: alerting cell to genome damage

“For decades the scientific community has attributed a role to RNA that is subordinate to that of DNA …” more

Cells found that might be “thousands of years” old

Some microbes survive by metabolizing so slowly that they can stand otherwise impossible environments more

James Shapiro: It’s hard to consider cell checkpoints purely mechanical – so why is BioLogos …

… dumping Darwin’s trash on us? more

For non-biologists: Why proteins are not easily recombined

“I suppose it comes from looking at simplified drawings of protein structure, and forgetting about the detailed atomic interactions required.” more

A Biologic Institute challenge to Darwinism: two protein chains, combined length over 1,400 amino acid residues

How does a neo-Darwinian process evolve an enzyme like this? more

Moshe Averick: Robert Saunders misses Steve Meyer’s point about the language of DNA

What Saunders seems to have missed is that Meyer is not talking about “evolutionary change” at all. He is talking about the origin of information in the very first living organism. more

British Darwinist wouldn’t attend ID theorist’s talk, and wouldn’t watch it on YouTube

The talk is now available on YouTube but he is not going to watch. more

Pod: Medical geneticist Michael Denton on the coming downfall of the mechanistic view in cell biology

“Denton finds validity in Stephen Meyer’s The Signature in the Cell, and in the proposition that intelligence was at work in the origin of life, and well before.” Shocka! more

How do cells suddenly create their little incinerators from scratch?

“They are made from scratch each time a cell needs to degrade one or more of its contents.” more

Darwinism: Extensive “editing” of RNA requires no intelligent design?

“This site is extensively edited in both Antarctic and Arctic species, but mostly unedited in tropical species.” more

If “sophisticated cellular machinery” yields an “inherent survival mechanism,” aren’t we closer to creationism than to Darwin?

These unexpected findings … stand as strong evidence against the common argument that prions are merely yeast “diseases” … more

From The First Gene: Chapter 8: “Redundant, low-informational selfordering is not organization.”

Unwanted cross-reactions are invariably ignored in these celebrated models. more

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