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How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology

By Philip Ball

Book information

Publisher
Picador
Year
2024
ISBN
1529095980, 9781529095982, 9781529096019
ASIN
B0C742CGCG
UDC
579.2
LBC
28.4
LCC
QH501
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
13 MB (13297227 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
560\0
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2023-11-13 10:46:26
Biological Sciences; Biology; Biochemistry; Microb

Description

A cutting-edge new vision of biology that proposes to revise our concept of what life is – from Science Book Prize winner and former Nature editor Philip Ball. Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works have been exposed as incomplete, misleading, or wrong. In How Life Works, Philip Ball explores the new biology, revealing life to be a far richer, more ingenious affair than we had guessed. With this knowledge come new possibilities. Today we can redesign and reconfigure living systems, tissues, and organisms. We can reprogram cells, for instance, to carry out new tasks and grow into structures not seen in the natural world. Some researchers believe that ultimately we will be able to regenerate limbs and organs, and perhaps even create new life forms that evolution has never imagined. Incorporating the latest research and insights, How Life Works is a sweeping journey into this new frontier of the nature of life, a realm that will reshape our understanding of life as we know it.

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