Venki Ramakrishnan, "Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome"
English | ISBN: 1786076713 | 2019 | 288 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1786076713 | 2019 | 288 pages | PDF | 3 MB
From Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan
‘Beyond superb’ Bill Bryson
‘A wonderful book’ Ian McEwan
Everyone knows about DNA. It is the essence of our being, influencing who we are and what we pass on to our children. But the information in DNA can’t be used without a machine to decode it. Older than DNA itself, it is the mother of all molecules. Virtually every molecule made in every cell was either made by the ribosome or by proteins that were themselves made by the ribosome.
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