Microcosm E. Coli and the New Science of Life

Name: Microcosm E. Coli and the New Science of Life
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ISBN: 9780307276865

ISBN-10: 0307276864

ISBN-13: 9780307276865

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Authors: Carl Zimmer

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Within days of being born, we are infected with billions ofE. coli.They will inhabit each and every one of us until we die.E. coliis notorious for making people gravely ill, but engineered strains of the bacteria save millions of lives each year. Despite its microscopic size,E.colicontains more than four thousand genes that operate a staggeringly sophisticated network of millions of molecules. Scientists are rebuildingE. colifrom the ground up, redefining our understanding of life on Earth. In the tradition of classics like Lewis Thomas'sLives of a Cell, Carl Zimmer has written a fascinating and utterly accessible investigation of what it means to be alive. Zimmer tracesE. coli's remarkable…

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List price: $16.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/14/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Carl Zimmer writes the monthly essay in the US magazine Natural History, having inherited this position from Stephen Jay Gould.