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Bezig met laden... Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (editie 2022)door Nick Lane (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I've studied biochemistry, evolution, and oncology, but it is just marvelous to have a professor of biochemical evolution who is widely knowledgeable in his field and in the history of its development discuss the relationship of all of these (as well as the origin of life, the possible causes of aging, and the missing hereditability from GWAS studies) with precision and clarity. Additionally, the cost of the book is probably justified by the author's annotated recommendations for further reading by themselves. ( ) Way too much chemistry for me! Lane tries valiantly to explain it to non-scientists but only so much is possible. Page after page was incomprehensible. But I liked his writing, he’s very enthusiastic and even tho I couldn’t understand much, some of it did sorta sink in. And in some funny way, I just liked reading through the descriptions of long complicated chemical processes, it had a nice rhythm in a way. Here’s a fantastic review of the book in the New Yorker - if you’re leery of too much chemistry you might want to read this instead of the book: https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/how-food-powers-your-body-metabolism-... geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"A renowned biochemist's illuminating inquiry into the Krebs cycle and the origins of life. What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been dominated by the study of genetic information. Information is important, but it is only part of what makes us alive. Our inheritance also includes our living metabolic network, a flame passed from generation to generation, right back to the origin of life. In Transformer, biochemist Nick Lane reveals a scientific renaissance that is hiding in plain sight -- how the same simple chemistry gives rise to life and causes our demise. Lane is among the vanguard of researchers asking why the Krebs cycle, the "perfect circle" at the heart of metabolism, remains so elusive more than eighty years after its discovery. Transformer is Lane's voyage, as a biochemist, to find the inner meaning of the Krebs cycle -- and its reverse -- why it is still spinning at the heart of life and death today. Lane reveals the beautiful, violent world within our cells, where hydrogen atoms are stripped from the carbon skeletons of food and fed to the ravenous beast of oxygen. Yet this same cycle, spinning in reverse, also created the chemical building blocks that enabled the emergence of life on our planet. Now it does both. How can the same pathway create and destroy? What might our study of the Krebs cycle teach us about the mysteries of aging and the hardest problem of all, consciousness? Transformer unites the story of our planet with the story of our cells -- what makes us the way we are, and how it connects us to the origin of life. Enlivened by Lane's talent for distilling and humanizing complex research, Transformer offers an essential read for anyone fascinated by biology's great mysteries. Life is at root a chemical phenomenon: this is its deep logic."-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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