Author: Sara Imari Walker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107150531
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
This book tackles the most difficult and profound open questions about life and its origins from an information-based perspective.
From Matter to Life
Author: Sara Imari Walker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107150531
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
This book tackles the most difficult and profound open questions about life and its origins from an information-based perspective.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107150531
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
This book tackles the most difficult and profound open questions about life and its origins from an information-based perspective.
What is Life? the Physical Aspect of the Living Cell & Mind and Matter
Author: Erwin Schrödinger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Life - As a Matter of Fat
Author: Ole G. Mouritsen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540270760
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Presents a multi-disciplinary perspective on the physics of life and the particular role played by lipids and the lipid-bilayer component of cell membranes. Emphasizes the physical properties of lipid membranes seen as soft and molecularly structured interfaces. By combining and synthesizing insights obtained from a variety of recent studies, an attempt is made to clarify what membrane structure is and how it can be quantitatively described. Shows how biological function mediated by membranes is controlled by lipid membrane structure and organization on length scales ranging from the size of the individual molecule, across molecular assemblies of proteins and lipid domains in the range of nanometers, to the size of whole cells. Applications of lipids in nano-technology and biomedicine are also described.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540270760
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Presents a multi-disciplinary perspective on the physics of life and the particular role played by lipids and the lipid-bilayer component of cell membranes. Emphasizes the physical properties of lipid membranes seen as soft and molecularly structured interfaces. By combining and synthesizing insights obtained from a variety of recent studies, an attempt is made to clarify what membrane structure is and how it can be quantitatively described. Shows how biological function mediated by membranes is controlled by lipid membrane structure and organization on length scales ranging from the size of the individual molecule, across molecular assemblies of proteins and lipid domains in the range of nanometers, to the size of whole cells. Applications of lipids in nano-technology and biomedicine are also described.
Structure of Matter
Author: Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9780809496624
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Discusses the structure and nature of matter and ways in which it can change.
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9780809496624
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Discusses the structure and nature of matter and ways in which it can change.
What is Life?
Author: Erwin Schrödinger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107604664
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
"What Is Life?" is Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology. His essay, "Mind and Matter," investigates what place consciousness occupies in the evolution of life, and what part the state of development of the human mind plays in moral questions. "Autobiographical Sketches" offers a fascinating fragmentary account of his life as a background to his scientific writings.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107604664
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
"What Is Life?" is Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology. His essay, "Mind and Matter," investigates what place consciousness occupies in the evolution of life, and what part the state of development of the human mind plays in moral questions. "Autobiographical Sketches" offers a fascinating fragmentary account of his life as a background to his scientific writings.
The Matter Is Life
Author: J. California Cooper
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307778592
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A fourth collection of stories by the award-winning author.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307778592
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A fourth collection of stories by the award-winning author.
Life and Matter
Author: Sir Oliver Lodge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Life
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Life
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Membranes to Molecular Machines
Author: Mathias Grote
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022662515X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Today's science tells us that our bodies are filled with molecular machinery that orchestrates all sorts of life processes. When we think, microscopic "channels" open and close in our brain cell membranes; when we run, tiny "motors" spin in our muscle cell membranes; and when we see, light operates "molecular switches" in our eyes and nerves. A molecular-mechanical vision of life has become commonplace in both the halls of philosophy and the offices of drug companies, where researchers are developing “proton pump inhibitors” or medicines similar to Prozac. Membranes to Molecular Machines explores just how late twentieth-century science came to think of our cells and bodies this way. This story is told through the lens of membrane research, an unwritten history at the crossroads of molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, and the neurosciences, that directly feeds into today's synthetic biology as well as nano- and biotechnology. Mathias Grote shows how these sciences not only have made us think differently about life, they have, by reworking what membranes and proteins represent in laboratories, allowed us to manipulate life as "active matter" in new ways. Covering the science of biological membranes in the United States and Europe from the mid-1960s to the 1990s, this book connects that history to contemporary work with optogenetics, a method for stimulating individual neurons using light, and will enlighten and provoke anyone interested in the intersection of chemical research and the life sciences—from practitioner to historian to philosopher. The research described in the book and its central actor, Dieter Oesterhelt, were honored with the 2021 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for his contribution to the development of optogenetics.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022662515X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Today's science tells us that our bodies are filled with molecular machinery that orchestrates all sorts of life processes. When we think, microscopic "channels" open and close in our brain cell membranes; when we run, tiny "motors" spin in our muscle cell membranes; and when we see, light operates "molecular switches" in our eyes and nerves. A molecular-mechanical vision of life has become commonplace in both the halls of philosophy and the offices of drug companies, where researchers are developing “proton pump inhibitors” or medicines similar to Prozac. Membranes to Molecular Machines explores just how late twentieth-century science came to think of our cells and bodies this way. This story is told through the lens of membrane research, an unwritten history at the crossroads of molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, and the neurosciences, that directly feeds into today's synthetic biology as well as nano- and biotechnology. Mathias Grote shows how these sciences not only have made us think differently about life, they have, by reworking what membranes and proteins represent in laboratories, allowed us to manipulate life as "active matter" in new ways. Covering the science of biological membranes in the United States and Europe from the mid-1960s to the 1990s, this book connects that history to contemporary work with optogenetics, a method for stimulating individual neurons using light, and will enlighten and provoke anyone interested in the intersection of chemical research and the life sciences—from practitioner to historian to philosopher. The research described in the book and its central actor, Dieter Oesterhelt, were honored with the 2021 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for his contribution to the development of optogenetics.
Inanimate Life
Author: George M. Briggs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942341826
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942341826
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Words are My Matter
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 0358212103
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A bright and wide-ranging collection of essays, reviews, talks, and more fromone of today's best and most thoughtful writers.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 0358212103
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A bright and wide-ranging collection of essays, reviews, talks, and more fromone of today's best and most thoughtful writers.