Abstractions blog
Unscrambled Eggs: Self-Organization Restores Cells’ Order
To scientists’ surprise, blended mixtures of cytoplasm can reorganize themselves into cell-like compartments with working structural components.
Biology
RNA’s Secret Life Outside the Cell
Circulating RNAs carry messages for plants and invertebrates. Do they do the same for us?
Biology
Evolution as Opportunist
A computational study reveals surprising flexibility hidden within metabolic networks, providing new evidence for an evolutionary concept called exaptation.