Gene Machine

Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan tells the thrilling story of how scientists unlocked a new window onto how life works'Beyond superb.' Bill Bryson'A wonderful book.' Ian McEwanEveryone knows about DNA, the essence of our being, the molecule where our genes reside. But DNA by itself is useless without a machine to decode the genetic information it contains. The ribosome is that machine. Venki Ramakrishnan tells the story of the race to uncover its enormously complex structure, a fundamental breakthrough that resolves an ancient mystery of life itself.

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Product details

• Authors: Venki Ramakrishnan
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.08.2019
• EAN: 9781786076717
• ISBN: 978-1-78607-671-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General, popular science, SCIENCE / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, MEDICAL / Genetics, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Molecular Biology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Biomedical, molecular biology, Cellular biology (cytology)