Confessions of a Conservative Atheist
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Meet JCVI-syn3A, the world’s first self-reproducing synthetic organism. This tiny little microbe was designed by trial and error in a lab and is capable of both maintaining its own internal structure and creating copies of itself, just like a real cell. The implications for medicine and our understanding of ourselves are, needless to say, enormous.… Continue reading Designing self-replicating cells one gene at a time and solving the mystery of the origins of life
A groundbreaking new study demonstrates that a change to a single gene results in humans having three times bigger brains than our closest cousins, the great apes. How evolution preserves and repurposes information in limitless ways, creating the incredible variety of life from small, measurable changes. The human brain is the most complex object in… Continue reading The Origin of Humanity: One Gene, Two Days, a Three Times Larger Brain Than Our Cousins
Confessions of a Conservative Atheist 