Gene Machine
The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
A Nobel Prize-winning biologist tells the riveting story of his race to discover the inner workings of biology's most important molecule Ramakrishnan's writing is so honest, lucid and engaging that I could not put this book down until I had read to the very end. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome -- an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms -- that makes DNA come to life, turning our genetic code into proteins and therefore into us. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-465-09337-3
- EAN: 9780465093373
- Produktnummer: 26294359
- Verlag: Basic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 29'212 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Venki Ramakrishnan shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for uncovering the structure of the ribosome. He is a senior scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, and also the president of the Royal Society in London.
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