New branches on the tree of life have just turned up in Africa. Some are cuter than others.
This article in the New York Times is a pretty useful overview of the political and financial support behind the Discovery Institute, the main anti-evolution think tank. It describes how the Institute has spent $3.6 million dollars to support fellowships that include scientific research in areas such as “laboratory or field research in biology, paleontology or biophysics.”
Those interested in my upcoming talks may want to visit my main web site.I’ve started to post information about the talks, as well as bringing the archive of my articles up to date. Nothing more depressing than a stale web site.
The New York Times, August 18, 2005
Michael Ellison has a dream: to reconstruct a living thing inside a computer, down to every last molecule. It is, he said, “the ultimate goal in biology, to be able to do this.”
It’s a dream that Ellison, a biologist at the University of Alberta, shares with other scientists, who have imagined such an achievement for decades.
Understanding how all of the parts of an organism work together would lift biology to a new level, they argue. Biologists would be able to understand life as deeply as engineers understand the bridges and airplanes that they build.
Continue reading “Developing a model for life, starting with E. coli”
The New York Times, August 16, 2005
Michael Ellison has a dream: to reconstruct a living thing inside a computer, down to every last molecule. It is, he said, “the ultimate goal in biology to be able to do this.”
It’s a dream that Dr. Ellison, a biologist at the University of Alberta, shares with other scientists, who have imagined such an achievement for decades.
Understanding how all of the parts of an organism work together would lift biology to a new level, they argue. Biologists would be able to understand life as deeply as engineers understand the bridges and airplanes that they build.
Continue reading “Building a Virtual Microbe, Gene by Gene by Gene”