Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
By: Venki Ramakrishnan
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the riboso…
Want to Read $ 12.99"When we have a clear goal in mind, we think we are struggling to reach a summit. But there is no summit. When we get there, we realize we have just climbed a foothill, and there is an endless series of mountains ahead still to be climbed."-Venki Ramakrishnan, Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
"When we have a clear goal in mind, we think we are struggling to reach a summit. But there is no summit. When we get there, we realize we have just climbed a foothill, and there is an endless series of mountains ahead still to be climbed."-Venki Ramakrishnan, Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
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1. Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome
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3.69
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
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3. Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
By: Matt Ridley
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Format: 496 pages, Paperback
The human genome, the complete set of genes housed in twenty-three pairs of chromosomes, is nothing… read more
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4. Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
By: Nick Lane
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If it weren't for mitochondria, scientists argue, we'd all still be single-celled bacteria. Indeed,… read more
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5. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… read more
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6. Letters to a Young Scientist
By: Edward O. Wilson
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty year… read more
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7. A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
By: Jennifer A. Doudna , Samuel H. Sternberg
4.08
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a c… read more
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8. She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
By: Carl Zimmer
4.16
Format: 657 pages, Hardcover
Carl Zimmer presents a history of our understanding of heredity in this sweeping, resonating overvi… read more
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"The stubborn inequalities in the Unites States are not the result of some people living in a physical environment. Their environment is built by social forces, and those forces last for centuries bec…"-Carl Zimmer, She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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9. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
By: Anil Seth
4.10
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Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons wo… read more
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10. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
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Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more
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11. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
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Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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12. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
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4.04
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What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been domina… read more
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"Putting terms aside, we’ll see that the ancient biosynthetic Krebs cycle was fixing CO2 a billion years before rubisco and the evolution of photosynthesis in the cyanobacterial ancestors of plant chl…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
13. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
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4.21
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Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the ve… read more
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14. From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
By: Daniel C. Dennett
3.77
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"Comprehension is not the source of competence or the active ingredient in competence; comprehension is composed of competences."-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
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16. Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
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19. Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
By: Venki Ramakrishnan
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the riboso… read more
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