Membranes to molecular machines : active matter and the remaking of life /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Synthesis (University of Chicago. Press)
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the molecular-mechanical vision of life
- Part one : Taking membranes apart, isolating a molecular pump
- What membranes can tell a historian and philosopher of the life sciences
- Active matter
- Part two: Remaking membranes and molecular machines
- Synthesizing cells and molecules : mechanisms as "plug-and-play"
- Biochip fever: life and technology in the 1980s
- Conclusion.