Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781541604490ISBN-10:1541604490UPC:9781541604490Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ScienceBook Subcategory:Science & Technology, Life Sciences, HistoryBook Topic:Genetics & GenomicsSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCTPW5C1GF
Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
A Nobel Prize-winning biologist's "engaging and witty" (Forbes) memoir tells the riveting story of his race to discover the inner workings of biology's most important molecule Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome--an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms--that makes DNA come to life, turning our genetic code into...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781541604490ISBN-10:1541604490UPC:9781541604490Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ScienceBook Subcategory:Science & Technology, Life Sciences, HistoryBook Topic:Genetics & GenomicsSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCTPW5C1GF
Venki Ramakrishnan shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for uncovering the structure of the ribosome. He is a senior scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, and was the president of the Royal Society in London from 2015-2020.
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