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E. coli chemotaxis: the baffling intelligence of a single cell
James Somers tells the story of how a single E. coli cell forages for nutrients through chemotaxis: its run-and-tumble swimming, the receptor and signaling proteins that give it something like smell, drive and memory, adaptation through methylation, and why this one phenomenon is a good way into understanding biology as a whole.
28 min · 6,437 words
Why is the human body so crap except for the liver?
Dynomight asks why the liver regenerates so well while most human tissues heal poorly, surveying biology, evolution, and regenerative medicine.
20 min · 4,636 words
The Millennium Problems for Biology
A proposed set of millennium-scale open problems for biology—framed as hard, motivating challenges analogous to the Clay Mathematics Millennium Prize Problems.
7 min · 1,615 words