Summary
The Symphony of Life: Beyond the Genetic Code
What is Life? Decades of research have mapped the human genome – three billion pairs of code whose functions are only now being understood. The gene’s eye view sees living bodies as vehicles for replicating genetic codes.
However, for a physiologist working with the living organism, the view is different. Denis Noble, a renowned physiologist, presents an alternative perspective, significant for the living, breathing organism. The…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199228362 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199228361 |
| Author: | Denis Noble |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 13 May 2008 |
| Weight: | 124g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 10mm |
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Critics Review
Review from previous edition A beautifully written book... After the great successes of molecular biology, the time has come to re-assemble the organism. Denis Noble tells us why this needs to be done. He also tells us how we should go about it. Strongly recommended.'Sir Patrick Bateson, F.R.S., Emeritus Professor of Ethology, Cambridgehighly evocative essay’Steven Poole, The Guardian
About The Author
Denis Noble
Denis Noble, CBE, FRS, is Emeritus Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology at the University of Oxford. He was Chairman of the IUPS (International Union of Physiological Sciences) World Congress in 1993, and Secretary-General of IUPS from 1993-2001. His previous publications include the seminal set of essays The Logic of Life (Boyd and Noble, OUP 1993), and he played a major role in launching the Physiome Project, one of the international components of thesystems biology approach. Science magazine included him amongst its review authors for its issue devoted to the subject in 2002.
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