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The body is a protein-producing factory.
Joe Dispenza • Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
Scientists discovered that DNA is able to exert control only because enzymes, like most proteins, live fast and die young. Most degrade after a few hours or days.52 So it’s the highly choreographed sequence in which genes call for (or don’t call for) the production of new enzymes that controls most of the action within a cell. It is the changes in
... See moreDan Levitt • What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
Babu discovered a network core shared by all of them, made up of 62 genetic switches controlling 376 genes, for a total of 492 links. This core, Babu concluded, existed in the common ancestor of all living things.
Carl Zimmer • Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
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youtube.comStand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy
The notion that organisms maintain an overall homeostasis by stabilising complementary patterns of metabolic flux in different tissues is less familiar, but the large genomes of eukaryotic cells enable exactly this.
Nick Lane • Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
Why are longevity genes so elusive? And why are centenarians so rare in the first place? It comes down to natural selection.