What Sustains Life?: Consilient Mechanisms for Protein-Based Machines and Materials Hardcover - 2006
by Dan W. Urry
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What Sustains Life? How can something so seemingly improbable and fragile as life exist in such hardy and resilient forms? The question has inspired intrigue among curious humans, from physicists to theologians, for centuries. Fascinated by this question, Dr Dan W. Urry, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota, St Paul, begins his investigation into the sustenance of life through an examination of the fundamental design of elastic-contractile model proteins. What does an understanding of these mechanisms lend to the comprehension of life itself? Encapsulating three decades of Dr. Urry's collaborative research and analysis, his initial investigation into the basis of life expands include an increasingly complex and diverse story that is part science, part personal memoir and wholly fascinating.
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- Title What Sustains Life?: Consilient Mechanisms for Protein-Based Machines and Materials
- Author Dan W. Urry
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Pages 632
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Birkhauser, New York, NY
- Date 2006-09-21
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780817643461 / 081764346X
- Weight 4.22 lbs (1.91 kg)
- Dimensions 10.02 x 7.36 x 1.49 in (25.45 x 18.69 x 3.78 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Ecology
- Library of Congress subjects Life (Biology), Proteins
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004049189
- Dewey Decimal Code 570.1
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