How life works : a user's guide to the new biology
Record details
- ISBN: 9780226826684
- ISBN: 0226826694
- ISBN: 9780226826691
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (541 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from eBook information screen.. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The end of the machine: a new view of life -- Genes: what DNA really does -- RNA and transcription: reading the message -- Proteins: structure and unstructure -- Networks: the webs that make us -- Cells: decisions, decisions -- Tissues: how to build, when to stop -- Bodies: uncovering the pattern -- Agency: how life gets goals and purposes -- Troubleshooting: rethinking medicine -- Making and hacking: redesigning life. |
Biographical or Historical Data: | Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and has written many books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and wider culture. Ball is also the 2022 recipient of the Royal Society's Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal for contributions to the history, philosophy, or social roles of science. He trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Science History Nonfiction Life (Biology) Vie (Biologie) SCIENCE / General |
Genre: | Electronic books. |