SCT: Centrioles Do Networking
November 1, 2025
"Every second, trillions of times over, your body pulls off something that’s nothing short of miraculous."
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Consciousness Does Not Emerge; It Transcends
July 9, 2025
By what authority does science dismiss the existential status of consciousness, defining it away as an “emergent quality”?
Archive: Your Model Train Set
February 23, 2024
Model trains in your cells? Yes: read about this and other wonders from 21 years ago. Note: Some embedded links may no longer work. Your Model Train Set 02/25/2003 Model train enthusiasts never had it so good. Imagine five different models of finely-crafted engines, all in perfect working order, and enough track to cover a […]
Extreme Fine Tuning in Body Cells, Part 2
May 11, 2019
Here are two examples of an ultra-fine balance between function and disease inside the cells of our body's sensory cells (Part 2).
Cell Biologists Use Machine Language
October 23, 2014
This is a golden age of discovery about molecular machines, but the metaphor may be moving from machinery to information processing.
Cell's Molecular Machines Arouse Fascination
August 9, 2014
With increasing image quality at their disposal, biologists are finding amazing molecular machines at work in living cells.
Body Secrets You Never Heard Of
July 10, 2014
Your body is performing hi-tech processes all the time that (thank goodness) you never have to think about.
Quality Control Ensures Accurate Cell Division
December 28, 2007
The wonders of cell division are described in several new discovery papers.
Cellular Cowboys: How the Cell Rounds Up Chromosomes Before Dividing
March 4, 2004
Cell division is like cowboys lassoing cattle and pulling ones that match into two identical corrals.