How Life Works A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball
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Name: How Life Works A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball
Format: epub
Size: 5.86 MB
Book:
Title: How Life Works
Author: Philip Ball
Language: English
Year: 2023
Subjects: SCI000000 SCIENCE / General, SCI034000 SCIENCE / History, SCI008000 SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9781529095999
Total pages: 184 str.
Description:
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it, and what possibilities it offers.
Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works-the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of genes as instructions for building an organism, of proteins as precisely tailored molecular machines, of cells as entities with fixed identities, and more-have been exposed as incomplete, misleading, or wrong.
In How Life Works, Philip Ball explores the new biology, revealing life to be a far richer, more ingenious affair than we had guessed. Ball explains that there is no unique place to look for an answer to this question: life is a system of many levels-genes, proteins, cells, tissues, and body modules such as the immune system and the nervous system-each with its own rules and principles. How Life Works explains how…
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