Venki Ramakrishnan

Gene Machine

The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome

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From Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan'Beyond superb' Bill Bryson'A wonderful book' Ian McEwanEveryone knows about DNA. It is the essence of our being, influencing who we are and what we pass on to our children. But the information in DNA can't be used without a machine to decode it. The ribosome is that machine. Older than DNA itself, it is the mother of all molecules. Virtually every molecule made in every cell was either made by the ribosome or by proteins that were themselves made by the ribosome.Venki Ramakrishnan tells the story of the race to uncover the ribosome's enormously complex structure, a fundamental breakthrough that resol… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78607-437-9
EAN: 9781786074379
Produktnummer: 26928756
Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'135 KB

Über den Autor

Venki Ramakrishnan is an Indian-born American and British structural biologist. He won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on ribosomal structure and was knighted in 2012. In 2015, he was elected as President of the Royal Society. He lives in Cambridge, England.