04Aug 2025 by Post

With Foresight, Cells Prepare for Emergency

ageing, biology, biowaste, cancer, cell's, Darwinism, dendritic cells, disasters, disposal services, DNA, DNA-Protein Crosslinks, electron transport chain, Erika Causa, Evolution, Immune System, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, lipids, Mark Fransen, Michael Behe, mitochondria, molecular machines, Nature Immunology, neurodegeneration, Nucleic Acids Research, organelles, Patricia Reis-Rodriguez, proteins, reactive oxygen species, topoisomerase, University of Cambridge, University of Strathclyde
Fire departments and rescue operations don’t just appear from nowhere. They require foresight to save entities from trouble. Cells know that.  Source
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20Sep 2024 by Post

Challenges to the Evolutionary Origins of the Glycolytic Pathway

adenosine triphosphate, amino acids, ATP, biochemical pathway, causal circularity, cellular respiration, citric acid cycle, Complexity, condensation reaction, electron transport chain, Engineering, enzymes, Evolution, fructose, glycolysis, glycolytic pathway, hexokinase, hinge, Intelligent Design, Keith Webster, mind, oxidative phosphorylation, oxygen, phosphofructokinase, pyruvate, unguided evolution, universal common ancestor, water
The complexity and engineering sophistication comport much better with the hypothesis of design. Source
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23Feb 2023 by Post

An Engineering Marvel: Uncovering the Mechanism of Respiratory Complex I

amphipathic helix, antiporter, ATP synthase, biochemists, biology, carboxylates, crystal structure, design triangulation, electricity, electron transfer, electron transport chain, Engineering, Evolution, evolutionary theory, generators, homology, Hoover Dam, hydrophobic, Institute of Science and Technology, Intelligent Design, laptop, Leonid Sazanov, lysine residues, membrane domain, membrane lipids, molecular machines, Nanoscale, Paul Nelson, power adapter, proteins, proton pumps, quinone, Research, Respiratory Complex I, structural biologists, water, water wires
Complex I is involved in the electron transport chain, which is part of the biochemical process by which we create ATP, the energy molecule of life. Source
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16Dec 2019 by Post

The Ultimate Recycler

ADP, ATP, ATP synthase, biochemistry, body weight, cell membrane, cell's, cities, citrate, cytoplasm, electron transport chain, Energy, Genome Biology, glucose, hydroelectric plant, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, machines, metabolism, mitochondria, NADH, protein complexes, pyruvate, recycling, succinate
When a city starts out with a major energy deficit, there are two changes that should be made: to be really, and I mean really efficient at recycling the critical resource, or to buy more energy. What about in biology? Cells are like cities, right? Out of Balance We already know from a previous post (“The Mystery of Energy Metabolism”) that the cell has an energy budget that is out of balance based solely on biosynthesis and use of ATP. It is in a predicament. It has an extreme shortfall in ATP in its balance sheet, needing six ATP just to make one. ATP is a high energy molecule. All that energy has to be loaded into the molecule during its synthesis by using up other ATP molecules. If chemical A is…
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