Researchers create functioning artificial proteins using nature's rules

Daily Scientific News | UT Southwestern Medical Center ^ | September 21, 2005

[sourcery]

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[SteveMcKing]

Welcome to 1982.

Novel proteins- ain't novel.

[msnimje]

Isn't nature's number one rule, "Don't mess with Mother Nature?"

[Paloma_55]

Nature is really cool to create rules.

[LiteKeeper]

YEC INTREP

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Sourcery, ping FairO'.

[RadioAstronomer]

Interesting

[SunkenCiv]

Too late, it's been done.

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[PatrickHenry]

Yes, interesting. But is it for the ping list?

[PatrickHenry]

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[Vaquero]

"Billy and the Clone-asaurus" (obscure reference....look it up)

[ml1954]

"One implication of our work is that the evolutionary protein-design process may not be as complex as was previously thought."

Timely.

[SeaLion]

Timely

Yes indeed--but as we are talking about evolution here, perhaps more accurate to say "long-timely."

[From article:] The rules we have extracted from the evolutionary record of proteins contain a substantial fraction of the information required to rebuild modern-day proteins.

Before the Creationists ask, "So who made the rules?," is there a mathematician in the house to show some of the splendours of fractals?

[Junior]

"Natural Rules" placemarker.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Vinnie]

I kinda like this statement

Even for a small protein made up of 100 amino acids, the number of possible combinations of amino acids is staggering, many times more than the number of atoms in the known universe.

[aimhigh]

Somehow, it found a way

Evolutionary religion at its best.

[Dimensio]

Before the Creationists ask, "So who made the rules?," is there a mathematician in the house to show some of the splendours of fractals?

Facts don't get in the way of a creationist's false equivocations.

[js1138]

Creationists don't like threads dealing with hard science. This thread will die. Besides, proteins are just about the last line of defense for the ID crowd. Quotes like" "One implication of our work is that the evolutionary protein-design process may not be as complex as was previously thought." are not ID friendly. Figuring out how to make proteins without living cells would be a major step toward abiogenesis.