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Veteran science writer Boyce Rensberger takes readers to the front lines of cell research with some of the brightest investigators in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. He maintains that the solutions to the most pressing challenges facing scientists today will be found in the innermost workings of the cell. 52 illustrations.
List of contents
- Chapter 1 - A Particle of Life
- Chapter 2 - Molecular Motors
- Chapter 3 - Animation
- Chapter 4 - The Living-Room Cell
- Chapter 5 - How Genes Work
- Chapter 6 - One Life Becomes Two
- Chapter 7 - Two lives Become One
- Chapter 8 - Constructing a Person
- Chapter 9 - Pumping Protein
- Chapter 10 - Heal Thyself
- Chapter 11 - In Self-Defense
- Chapter 12 - Revolution
- Chapter 13 - The Immortality Within
About the author
Boyce Rensberger has been a science writer and science editor for more than 30 years, including long stints at the New York Times and the Washington Post. He now directs the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Summary
This text explores cell research with some of the investigators in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. Topics in late 1990s biomedical research are covered here, such as: how do cells and their minute components move?; how do the body's cells heal wounds?; and what is cancer?
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An elegant, authoritative, yet felicitously written book that will appeal to anyone who is interested in how cells work....a compelling portrait of terrestrial life in its many guises.
