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Gene Machine - The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome (Hardcover)
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Gene Machine - The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 5 190
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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
structure of the ribosome, a fundamental discovery that both
advances our knowledge of all life and could lead to the
development of better antibiotics against life-threatening
diseases. But this is also a human story of Ramakrishnan's unlikely
journey, from his first fumbling experiments in a biology lab to
being the dark horse in a fierce competition with some of the
world's best scientists. In the end, Gene Machine is a frank
insider's account of the pursuit of high-stakes science.
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