I believe I predicted that there would be a chemistry DpSU today, and look what there is – New Insights into Earth’s Nitrogen-Balancing System. That may sound more biological than chemical, but the title of the paper that it is based on – Molecular mechanism of anaerobic ammonium oxidation – shows it to be more [...]
Posts Tagged ‘enzyme’
22 Oct
Your Mitochondria May Be Infected
That is to say, according to some studies that a recent paper in Nature cites, an enzyme used in mitochondrial DNA transcription is “distantly related” to that of Bacteriophage T7 (a virus which infects E. coli), a similar enzyme that does the same thing in chloroplasts, and Pol I polymerases generally (whatever they are). This [...]
17 Jul
Antibiotic Resistance and Creationism
In the most recent(ly discovered by me) article by Brian Thomas, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria Shows Adaptive Design, we have the creationist explanation for why Antibiotic resistance is not, apparently, evidence (if not confirmation) for evolution. The article, coincidentally, is very similar to the most recent DpSU I wrote about, which was about the evolution [...]
