“and predictions. Science is often presented as ‘the facts’, frequently in” — Nick Lane Predictions Copy Share Image
“establishment. In 1966, the Dutch geologist M. G. Rutten could write, in a charmingly antiquated style that has passed forever from the… — Nick Lane Geologist Copy Share Image
“But whatever our beliefs, this richness of understanding should be a cause for marvel and celebration.” — Nick Lane Celebration Copy Share Image
“In an average person, ATP is produced at a rate of 9 × 1020 molecules per second, which equates to a turnover… — Nick Lane Average person Copy Share Image
“One mitochondrion contains tens of thousands of copies of each respiratory complex. A single cell contains hundreds or thousands of mitochondria. Your… — Nick Lane Every second Copy Share Image
“Rather surprisingly, to anyone who is most familiar with textbook mitochondria, many simple single-celled eukaryotes have mitochondria that operate in the absence… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
“Energy and life go hand in hand. If you stop breathing, you will not be able to generate the energy you need… — Nick Lane Breath Copy Share Image
“Pigments such as haemoglobin are coloured because they absorb light of particular colours (bands of light, as in a rainbow) and reflect… — Nick Lane Red and blue Copy Share Image
“Mitochondria, as we have seen, are only passed on in the egg, so all 13 mitochondrial genes come from our mothers. If… — Nick Lane Evolution Copy Share Image
“of oxygen, whether we think of it as ‘good’ or ‘bad’, is the formation of free radicals. As conventionally stated, the idea… — Nick Lane Oxygen Copy Share Image
“Every day in the human body, some 10 billion cells die and are replaced by new cells. The cells that die do… — Nick Lane Every day Copy Share Image
“This was difficult to prove as most hydrogenosomes have lost their entire genome, but it is now established with some certainty.1 In… — Nick Lane Bacteria Copy Share Image
“Buchner proposed that fermentation was carried out by biological catalysts that he named enzymes (from the Greek en zyme, meaning in yeast).… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
“Matters came to a head after 1918, when the French scientist Paul Portier published his rhetorical masterpiece Les Symbiotes. He was nothing… — Nick Lane Bacteria Copy Share Image
“Metabolically active cells, such as those of the liver, kidneys, muscles, and brain, have hundreds or thousands of mitochondria, making up some… — Nick Lane Body weight Copy Share Image
“Timmis and colleagues found that chloroplast genes are transferred to the nucleus at a rate of about 1 transfer in every 16… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
“The point I want to make about methanogens is that they were the losers in the race through a bottleneck, yet nonetheless… — Nick Lane Bottleneck Copy Share Image
“Horvitz and his colleagues discovered several genes that coded for the effectors of cell death in nematodes—the death genes. Their findings were… — Nick Lane Cancer research Copy Share Image
“To visualize this dance, the transparent components of the cell had to be coloured using a stain. As it happened, the stains… — Nick Lane Evolution Copy Share Image
