Molecules, Information, And Life
| Autor: | Jon C. Clardy |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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| Zdroj: | Chemical & Engineering News Archive. 77:50-51 |
| ISSN: | 2157-4936 0009-2347 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/cen-v077n009.p050 |
| Popis: | What's the difference between a ruby and a rose? Information. The rose, like any living system, can extract information from its surroundings, store information as stable molecules, and use the stored information for creative endeavors. At least that's the view ably expanded upon by Werner R. Loewenstein in "The Touchstone of Life: Molecular Information, Cell Communication, and the Foundations of Life." The author, formerly a professor at Columbia University where he directed the Cell Physics Laboratory and currently director of the Laboratory of Cell Communications at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., has revealed many of the principles of intercellular communication in his own research. In this book he addresses broader aspects of communication. The scope of the book is extraordinary: information exchange from the big bang to yesterday. The first section of the book presents a close look at the meanings of information and entropy, the generation of complex molecules to encode ... |
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