/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ en-us derek-lowe@sbcglobal.net 2006-10-25T21:19:35-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2006/10/25/mass_spec_on_mars.php There's an interesting analytical chemistry paper in the preprint section of PNAS (open access if you want to read it) that may reopen an old controversy. It's from a large multinational team (Mexico, Spain, France, NASA-Ames) investigating the GC-mass spec... 68035@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Life As We (Don't) Know It 2006-10-25T21:19:35-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2005/05/23/intelligent_chemical_design.php I haven't commented on the controversy about including "Intelligent Design" in school curricula, but I don't want that to be interpreted as any kind of approval. On the contrary - until it offers some testable predictions, which would seem an... 11217@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Life As We (Don't) Know It 2005-05-23T21:27:59-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2005/02/23/exobiochemistry.php Back in the early days of my pre-Corante blog, I wrote a piece about some other kinds of chemistry that might be used in living systems. There's now a wonderful one-stop review for all sorts of speculations on this topic,... 11157@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ General Scientific News 2005-02-23T21:15:46-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2002/08/13/our_friend_the_phosphate_group.php As for phosphorylation, I've had some folks write to talk about the importance of phosphate cleavages for cellular energy production, and about the conformational effects of phosphorylation. All that's well taken - but I guess what I was getting at... 10737@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ General Scientific News 2002-08-13T21:45:30-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2002/03/19/mirror_stars.php No longer can I say that the topic of allergenic extraterrestrial life hasn't been taken on in science fiction. Patrick Neilsen Hayden of Electrolite, who is certainly in a professional position to know, passes on the word that the 1999... 10665@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Life As We (Don't) Know It 2002-03-19T22:16:20-05:00