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- Title: Membranes to Molecular Machines
- Author : Mathias Grote
- Release Date : January 19, 2019
- Genre: Science & Nature,Books,History,Biology,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 6304 KB
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Todayâs science tells us that our bodies are filled with molecular machinery that orchestrates all sorts of life processes. When we think, microscopic âchannels" open and close in our brain cell membranes; when we run, tiny âmotors" spin in our muscle cell membranes; and when we see, light operates âmolecular 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 âproton pump inhibitorsâ 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 todayâs 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 âactive 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 sciencesâfrom practitioner to historian to philosopher.
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