Randomness and Divine Providence
A Q&A on randomness and God’s providence …the main goal is to really put together a collection of scholarly studies of these issues: physicists, biologists, […]
Health and Fitness
Human pheromones: RNA-mediated theory killers
A Fear of Pheromones Excerpt: WHAT are we going to do if it turns out that we have pheromones? What on earth would we be […]
Nutrient-dependent sustained fitness is pheromone-controlled
Sustained fitness gains and variability in fitness trajectories in the long-term evolution experiment with Escherichia coli Conclusion: …adaptation and divergence are continuing unabated in the […]
Nutritional epigenetics, exercise, and immune system integrity
Anti-inflammatory mechanism of dieting and fasting revealed Summary: Researchers have found that a compound produced by the body when dieting or fasting can block a […]
Military combat training to fight disease
Q: What is the extent of your formal scientific education? I see that you attended the University of Nevada at some point. A: I had […]
RNA-mediated epigenetic modification via DNA-methylation
I have repeatedly used the phrase “RNA-directed DNA methylation and RNA-mediated amino acid substitutions” in the context of links from the epigenetic landscape to the […]
The biologically-based origin of the mammalian placenta (2)
See also: The biologically-based origin of the mammalian placenta I’ll preface this follow-up on the origins of the mammalian placenta with comments that attest to […]
Biologists puzzled by evolved RNAs and decaying DNA
Horizontal Transfer of Entire Genomes via Mitochondrial Fusion in the Angiosperm Amborella (December, 2013) Excerpt) “The ancestral angiosperm-wide genome duplication apparent in the Amborella genome […]
It’s cell type differention, not cell fate determination (2)
See: It’s cell type differention, not cell fate determination High-throughput engineering of a mammalian genome reveals building principles of methylation states at CG rich regions […]
Ray and Terry’s vitamins: DHEA
Welcome to Ray Kurzweil & Terry Grossman’s Health Products Excerpt: “The most abundant steroid hormone in the human body-DHEA, or dehydroepiandrosterone-is primarily produced by the […]