Dan W. Urry
What Sustains Life?
Consilient Mechanisms for Protein-Based Machines and Materials
Gebonden Engels 2006 2006e druk 9780817643461Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
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This book brings together three decades worth of collaborative research to address the question "What sustains life?" In part a scientific response to Schrödinger's work "What is Life?" this text contains elements of memoir, history, and a solid, informative scientific core that will interest the general reader, student, and professional researcher.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780817643461
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Aantal pagina's:632
Uitgever:Birkhäuser Boston
Druk:2006
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Inhoudsopgave
What Sustains Life? An Overview.- The Pilgrimage: Highlights in Our Understanding of the Products and Components of Living Organisms.- Likelihood of Life’s Protein Machines: Extravagant in Construction Yet Efficient in Function.- Consilient Mechanisms for Diverse Protein-based Machines: The Efficient Comprehensive Hydrophobic Effect.- On the Evolution of Protein-based Machines (Toward Complexity of Structure and Diversity of Function).- Biology Thrives Near a Movable Cusp of Insolubility.- Consilient Mechanisms for Protein-based machines of Biology.- Advanced Materials for the Future: Protein-based Materials with Potential to Sustain Individual Health and Societal Development.- Epilogue.
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