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Rendering Life Molecular - Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter (Paperback)
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Rendering Life Molecular - Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter (Paperback)
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What are living bodies made of? Protein modelers tell us that our
cells are composed of millions of proteins, intricately folded
molecular structures on the scale of nanoparticles. Proteins twist
and wriggle as they carry out the activities that keep cells alive.
Figuring out how to make these unruly substances visible, tangible,
and workable is a challenging task, one that is not readily
automated, even by the fastest computers. Natasha Myers explores
what protein modelers must do to render three-dimensional,
atomic-resolution models of these lively materials. Rendering Life
Molecular shows that protein models are not just informed by
scientific data: model building entangles a modeler’s entire
sensorium, and modelers must learn to feel their way through the
data in order to interpret molecular forms. Myers takes us into
protein modeling laboratories and classrooms, tracking how gesture,
affect, imagination, and intuition shape practices of objectivity.
Asking, ‘What is life becoming in modelers' hands?’ she tunes
into the ways they animate molecules through their moving bodies
and other media. In the process she amplifies an otherwise muted
liveliness inflecting mechanistic accounts of the stuff of life.
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