How life works : a user's guide to the new biology / Philip Ball.
"Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works-the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of genes as instructions for building an organism, of proteins as precisely tailored molecular machines, of cells as entities with fixed i...
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The University of Chicago Press,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- The end of the machine: a new view of life
- Genes: what DNA really does
- RNA and transcription: reading the message
- Proteins: structure and unstructure
- Networks: the webs that make us
- Cells: decisions, decisions
- Tissues: how to build, when to stop
- Bodies: uncovering the pattern
- Agency: how life gets goals and purposes
- Troubleshooting: rethinking medicine
- Making and hacking: redesigning life.