The Wonders of Intelligent Design in Chemistry

The Wonders of Intelligent Design in ChemistryA few years ago, Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN) featured a story in the field of structural biology entitled “How Transcription Gets Its Start, in Pictures.” Transcription is the biochemical process that occurs in every cell in the human body when protein synthesis is initiated. It is a complex series of steps that begins in the nucleus when a gene — a section on a strand of DNA — expresses instructions for a specific protein to be produced. In simple terms, the portion of the DNA molecule where the gene is located is unzipped,...