La vita è il fenomeno più straordinario nell'universo conosciuto; ma come funziona? Anche in quest'epoca di clonazione e biologia sintetica, la straordinaria verità rimane: nessuno ha mai creato qualcosa di vivente interamente da materiale morto. La vita rimane l'unico modo per creare la vita. Ci manca forse un ingrediente vitale nella sua creazione? Come The Selfish Gene di Richard Dawkins, che ha fornito una nuova prospettiva sull'evoluzione, Life on the Edge altera la nostra comprensione delle dinamiche della vita mentre Jim Al-Khalili e Johnjoe Macfadden rivelano che l'ingrediente finora mancante è la meccanica quantistica. Basandosi su recenti esperimenti rivoluzionari in tutto il mondo, mostrano come la fotosintesi si basi su particelle subatomiche esistenti in molti luoghi contemporaneamente, mentre all'interno degli enzimi, quei cavalli da tiro della vita che creano ogni molecola nelle nostre cellule, le particelle svaniscono da un punto nello spazio e si materializzano istantaneamente in un altro. Ogni capitolo di Life on the Edge si apre con un esempio coinvolgente che illustra uno degli enigmi della vita: come fanno gli uccelli migratori a sapere dove andare? Come sentiamo davvero il profumo di una rosa? Come fanno i nostri geni a copiare se stessi con tale precisione? – e poi rivela come la meccanica quantistica fornisce la sua risposta. Guidando il lettore attraverso il labirinto di una scoperta in rapida evoluzione, Al-Khalili e McFadden comunicano vividamente l'eccitazione di questo nuovo campo esplosivo della biologia quantistica, con le sue applicazioni potenzialmente rivoluzionarie, e offrono anche spunti sul più grande enigma di tutti: cos'è la vita?
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Professor Jim Al-Khalili, OBE is an academic, author and broadcaster. He is a leading theoretical physicist based at the University of Surrey, where he teaches and carries out research in quantum mechanics.
Professor Johnjoe McFadden is Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Surrey and is the editor of leading text books on both molecular biology and systems biology of tuberculosis. For over a decade, he has specialised in examining tuberculosis and meningitis.
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