How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology [1 ed.] 1529095980, 9781529095982, 9781529096019
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that proposes to revise our concept of what life is – from Science Book Prize winne
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English Pages 560 Year 2024
Table of contents :
Prologue
1 The End of the Machine: A New View of Life
2 Genes: What DNA Really Does
3 RNA and Transcription: Reading the Message
4 Proteins: Structure and Unstructure
5 Networks: The Webs That Make Us
6 Cells: Decisions, Decisions
7 Tissues: How to Build, When to Stop
8 Bodies: Uncovering the Pattern
9 Agency: How Life Gets Goals and Purposes
10 Troubleshooting: Rethinking Medicine
11 Making and Hacking: Redesigning Life
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Source Notes
Bibliography
Index
Prologue
1 The End of the Machine: A New View of Life
2 Genes: What DNA Really Does
3 RNA and Transcription: Reading the Message
4 Proteins: Structure and Unstructure
5 Networks: The Webs That Make Us
6 Cells: Decisions, Decisions
7 Tissues: How to Build, When to Stop
8 Bodies: Uncovering the Pattern
9 Agency: How Life Gets Goals and Purposes
10 Troubleshooting: Rethinking Medicine
11 Making and Hacking: Redesigning Life
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Source Notes
Bibliography
Index
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