How Do Mitotic Errors Affect Cell Proliferation?

anaphase, aneuploidy, biology, biologyu, cancer, cancer cells, cell fusion, cell proliferation, cell's, chromatids, chromosomal instability, chromosome, chromosome missegregation, cohesin ring, cytokinesis failure, DNA, E-Cadherin, endoreduplication, eukaryotic cell cycle, Evolution, intelligent cause, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, kinetochore, Medicine, micronuclei, mitotic cell division, mitotic spindle, oocytes, proteasome, securin, separase, spindle assembly checkpoint, tetraploidization, tetraploidy, tumorigenesis, tumors
This review furthers the argument that I have developed elsewhere that the eukaryotic cell division cycle is elegantly engineered and irreducibly complex. Source
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31 Nobel Prize Quotes That Challenge the ‘Faith vs. Science’ Myth – Smart Faith

2. Does God Exist?, Apologetics, Evidence for God, Faith vs. Reason, Gospel, Medicine, Miguel Rodriguez, science, Science vs. Religion, scientism, SmartFaith.me, theology
You have seen it on social media or even books. Someone gambling his head that faith impedes the progression of science. Faith, they say, is believing something without evidence or in spite of, and science relies on evidence to reach at truth. This gives the false impression that the majority of scientist are atheist, or at least non theist. It’s even considered conventional wisdom for many (maybe you thought it too). But in reality… this is just plain doodoo. Faith vs. Science? First, because it starts with a false definition of faith like the one mentioned above. Pistis, the Greek word for faith, means trust and is the word used in the Bible. Trust cannot be conceived without reasonable justification. The biblical faith doesn’t shy away from doubt. Doubt and faith…
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Doctor’s Diary: I Couldn’t Put Plato’s Revenge Down

biology, brain, Brian Miller, chemicals, chess pieces, Complexity, concertos, David Klinghoffer, Doctor's Diary, double helix, egg, electric cords, embryo, Evolution, eyes, gene pool, genes, humor, information, Intelligent Design, Leonardo da Vinci, Medicine, piano, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, skyscraper, sperm, Stephen Iacoboni, What Darwin Didn’t Know
I rarely read a book as quickly as I read this text, and I virtually never read a book twice. Source
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Are “Mind” and “Brain” the Same Thing?

Angus Menuge, animals, Artificial Intelligence, bacon, Benjamin Libet, brain, C. elegans, ChatGPT, computer, Denyse O'Leary, determinism, Dogs, free will, free won't, human exceptionalism, Humanize, large language models, machines, Medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, Minding the Brain, neural mechanisms, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, philosophy, Podcast, The Immortal Mind, totalitarianism, Wesley J. Smith
Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor passionately argues that denying free will undermines moral responsibility and paves the way for totalitarian ideologies. Source
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Depraved: New York Times Pushes Assisted Suicide for the Elderly

bioethics, Culture, Daniel Kahneman, disabilities, elderly, Ezekiel Emanuel, family, friendship, geriatric suicide, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Medicine, mentally ill, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Peter Singer, philosophers, philosophy, Princeton University, suicide, Switzerland, The Atlantic
The victims of such a nihilistic mindset will be the elderly, people with disabilities, the mentally ill, and the seriously sick in an ever-widening swath. Source
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At NIH, Bhattacharya Wants to Restore Open Inquiry

academic freedom, Anthony Fauci, bioethics, COVID-19, epidemiologists, Francis Collins, free speech, health policy, Honestly, Jay Bhattacharya, Khaleda Rahman, Lawrence D. Bobo, lockdowns, Maya Sulkin, Medicine, National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Heath, Newsweek, Real Clear Politics, Scott Atlas, The Free Press, The New England Journal of Medicine, Washington Post, Wesley J. Smith
Restoring open discussion is certainly worth a try. Science advances more from doubt than from certainty. Source
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Implant Lets a Disabled Woman Speak Her Thoughts

anarthria, audible speech, brain, brain implant, brainstem stroke, California, cerebral cortex, communication, Engineering, frustration, internal speech, isolation, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, paralysis, speech, stroke, Tibi Puiu, voice synthesizer, ZME Science
The key benefit of the system is that it is much faster than traditional methods, cutting the time from internal speech to audible speech to three seconds. Source
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Hysteria in the Science Sector Over DOGE

Bethesda (magazine), bioethics, censorship, COVID-19, DOGE, Donald Trump, Francis Collins, free speech, hormone injections, hysteria, ideology, innovation, Jay Bhattacharya, layoffs, Medicine, National Institutes of Health, PhD students, Reform, research funding, respondents, scientific debate, scientists, Trump Administration
Whatever problems now exist for the public medical research funding sector, the disappointing Francis Collins helped create them. Source
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