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BALL PHILIP HOW LIFE WORKS

'An essential primer on humanity's ongoing quest to understand the secrets of life . . .
Excellent . . . Ball is a terrific writer.' - Adam Rutherford  The Guardian   'Ball is a
ferociously gifted science writer . . . There is so much [here] that is amazing . . . urgent .
. . astonishing.' - The Sunday Times   A cutting-edge new vision of biology that proposes to
revise our concept of what life is - from Science Book Prize winner Philip Ball.   Biology is
undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how
life works have been exposed as incomplete  misleading  or wrong.  In How Life Works   Philip
Ball explores the new biology  revealing life to be a far richer  more ingenious affair than we
had guessed. With this knowledge come new possibilities. Today we can redesign and reconfigure
living systems  tissues  and organisms. We can reprogram cells  for instance  to carry out new
tasks and grow into structures not seen in the natural world. Some researchers believe that
ultimately we will be able to regenerate limbs and organs  and perhaps even create new life
forms that evolution has never imagined.   Incorporating the latest research and insights  How
Life Works is a sweeping journey into this new frontier of the nature of life  a realm that
will reshape our understanding of life as we know it.

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