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Consilient Mechanisms for Protein-based machines of Biology

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What Sustains Life?

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Biology thrives near a movable cusp of insolubility, and the forces that, in a positively cooperative manner, power the molecular machines of biology drive spatially localized hydrophobic protein domains back and forth across thermodynamically movable water-solubility-insolubility divides.

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