Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome - Rilegato

Ramakrishnan, Venki

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ISBN 10: 1786074362 ISBN 13: 9781786074362

Casa editrice: Oneworld Publications, 2018

Riassunto

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 McEwan

Everyone 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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[Venki s] scientific achievements have been remarkable.

--(Jim Al-Khalili, The Life Scientific)

L'autore

Venki Ramakrishnan is an Indian-born American and British structural biologist. He shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the structure and function of the ribosome, and was knighted in 2012. In 2015, he was elected as President of the Royal Society. He works at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Oneworld Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1786074362
• ISBN 13: 9781786074362
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile