Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome by Venki Ramakrishnan

Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome

Venki Ramakrishnan with Matthew Waterson (Narrator)

8 hours, 11 minutes first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir science challenging informative fast-paced

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Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome-an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms-that makes DNA come to life, turning our genetic code into proteins and therefore into u...

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