How life works

a user’s guide to the new biology

Philip Ball (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

560 Seiten

2023 | 1. Auflage
Picador (Verlag)
978-1-5290-9599-9 (ISBN)

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Drawing on recent discoveries and insights, How Life Works outlines a new vision of biology for the 21st century.

A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it, and what possibilities it offers – from Science Book Prize winner and former Nature editor Philip Ball.

Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works have been exposed as incomplete, misleading, or wrong.

In How Life Works, Philip Ball explores the new biology, revealing life to be a far richer, more ingenious affair than we had guessed. With this knowledge come new possibilities. Today we can redesign and reconfigure living systems, tissues, and organisms. We can reprogram cells, for instance, to carry out new tasks and grow into structures not seen in the natural world. Some researchers believe that ultimately we will be able to regenerate limbs and organs, and perhaps even create new life forms that evolution has never imagined.

Incorporating the latest research and insights, How Life Works is a sweeping journey into this new frontier of the nature of life, a realm that will reshape our understanding of life as we know it.

Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and has written many books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and wider culture. His book Critical Mass won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. Ball is also a presenter of Science Stories, the BBC Radio 4 series on the history of science. He trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol. He is the author of The Modern Myths, The Book of Minds, and How Life Works. He lives in London.

Erscheinungsdatum	31.10.2023
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Gewicht	684 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Bioinformatik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
ISBN-10	1-5290-9599-9 / 1529095999
ISBN-13	978-1-5290-9599-9 / 9781529095999
Zustand	Neuware