Boyce Rensberger

Life Itself

Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell

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Produktbeschreibung

Veteran science writer Boyce Rensberger takes readers to the front lines of cell research with some of the brightest investigators in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. He maintains that the solutions to the most pressing challenges facing scientists today will be found in the innermost workings of the cell. 52 illustrations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780195125009
• ISBN-10: 0195125002
• Artikelnr.: 21065134

Autorenporträt

Boyce Rensberger is Science Writer for The Washington Post, and is a former writer for The New York Times, where he helped establish `Science Times'.

Inhaltsangabe

1: A Particle of Life
2: Molecular Motors
3: Animation
4: The Living-Room Cell
5: How Genes Work
6: One Life Becomes Two
7: Two lives Become One
8: Constructing a Person
9: Pumping Protein
10: Heal Thyself
11: In Self-Defense
12: Revolution
13: The Immortality Within