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The Machinery of Life (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2009)
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The Machinery of Life (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2009)
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Imagine that we had some way to look directly at the molecules in a
living organism. An x-ray microscope would do the trick, or since
we re dreaming, perhaps an Asimov-style nanosubmarine
(unfortunately, neither is currently feasible). Think of the
wonders we could witness firsthand: antibodies atta- ing a virus,
electrical signals racing down nerve fibers, proteins building new
strands of DNA. Many of the questions puzzling the current cadre of
sci- tists would be answered at a glance. But the nanoscale world
of molecules is separated from our everyday world of experience by
a daunting million-fold difference in size, so the world of
molecules is completely invisible. I created the illustrations in
this book to help bridge this gulf and allow us to see the
molecular structure of cells, if not directly, then in an artistic
rendition. I have included two types of illustrations with this
goal in mind: watercolor paintings which magnify a small portion of
a living cell by one million times, showing the arrangement of
molecules inside, and comput- generated pictures, which show the
atomic details of individual molecules. In this second edition of
The Machinery of Life, these illustrations are presented in full
color, and they incorporate many of the exciting scientific
advances of the 15 years since the first edition."
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