These articles in ScienceDaily, one about molecular communication the other about cellular communication, show that we are starting to zero in on the details of basic biological functioning.
'Biological' turns out to be a nice pun. It is indeed the logical functioning of life: bio-logical.
We have also managed to film an electron going about its business.
Perhaps we shall one day be able to figure out how the hierarchy of the logic of life works, all the way up from the electron, or lower, right up to the intelligent molecular machines and the networks of them on which our cells are founded.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
FOOD CHANGES US
We are what we eat, as this study shows. The biolmolecular logic is changed by diet, clearly one of the factors that it adapts to as it processes over the aeons.
DANCING WATER CHANGED BY PROTEIN FOLDING
This blog speculated in an earlier posting that water might be used by proteins for more than just lubrication, that there might be an intelligent use. Now research using terahertz spectroscopy gives some evidence for that. But even without the empirical science it is reasonable to think that the modifications described are not meaningless accidents, so there may well be a signalling aspect.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
THE MOLECULAR PROCESSING OF EVOLUTION
As the organism grows and learns, so do its biomolecules, adjusting at the fundamental level to its behaviour and interaction with the environment.
Thus the proto-bird flaps its proto-wings to help speed it from a predator, and its molecules begin the long, multi-generational changes to feathers, bone, etc., and creation develops in defiance of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Organisation, driven by fundamental intelligence--a myriad of smart nanonmachines--triumphs over disorganisation.
The slow calculation of the aeons, ever filtering and improving, generation after generation, just as the brain processes thoughts and arrives at the best conclusions, but far slower, because the processing power is far less.
A feedback-loop, back and forth between the basic molecular machines and the full organism, IS ever refining, adapting, living...
Thus the proto-bird flaps its proto-wings to help speed it from a predator, and its molecules begin the long, multi-generational changes to feathers, bone, etc., and creation develops in defiance of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Organisation, driven by fundamental intelligence--a myriad of smart nanonmachines--triumphs over disorganisation.
The slow calculation of the aeons, ever filtering and improving, generation after generation, just as the brain processes thoughts and arrives at the best conclusions, but far slower, because the processing power is far less.
A feedback-loop, back and forth between the basic molecular machines and the full organism, IS ever refining, adapting, living...
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