Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death by Lane, Nick - 2022-07-12

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W. W. Norton & Company, 2022 Hardcover. New.

W. W. Norton & Company, 07/12/2022. Hardcover. NEW.

A tight, clean, and unmarked First Edition.-" 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… Read More

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W W Norton & Co Inc, 2022. Hardcover. New. 336 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches.