Articles and reports from the Life Sciences area deal with applied and basic research
into modern biology, chemistry and human medicine.
Not exact matches
While
modern science, history, geology,
biology, and physics have failed to convince you of the deep inanity of your silly faith, some priest doing magic hand signals over grocery store bread and wine is enough to convince you it is thereby transformed
into the flesh and blood of Jesus, because of the priest's magic powers (or «sacred powers» if you prefer the more euphemistic term).
While
modern science, history, geology,
biology, and physics have failed to convince you of the deep inanity of your silly faith, some priest doing magic hand signals over bread and wine is enough to convince you it is thereby transformed
into the flesh and blood of Jesus because of the priest's magic powers (or «sacred powers» to the extent you see a difference).
Not that that's necessarily the very first way Darwinian systems began, but at some point they had to transition
into a system more related to
modern biology where cells are all bounded by membranes.
Like Medieval alchemists who searched for an elixir that could turn base metals
into gold,
biology's
modern alchemists have learned how to use oocytes to turn normal skin cells
into valuable stem cells, and even whole animals.
So it could be RNA or DNA like we have in
modern biology or it could be some related kind of material; and we are also thinking about some kind of cell envelope or cell membrane — not that that's necessarily the very first way Darwinian systems began, but at some point they had to transition
into a system more related to
modern biology where cells are all bounded by membranes — so we're thinking about how to assemble these two components and get them to interact with each other.
«In
modern biology mitochondria are considered to be much more than the powerhouse of the cell; they integrate multiple intracellular signals to regulate progression through the cell cycle and
into apoptosis.
This discovery may convert these esoteric proteins
into one of the most valuable tools in
modern molecular
biology.
Weaving together insights from evolutionary
biology,
modern neuroscience, positive psychology, and mindfulness practices, neuropsychologist Rick Hanson claims the difficulty at the core of human experience is our perpetual struggle to overcome the negativity bias wired
into our brains.