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And then there are the viruses that lug around bundles of genes that can be very helpful to a microbe but offer no immediate benefit to themselves. When they slip into the genome of E. coli, it becomes much harder to say where the virus leaves off and the host begins.
Carl Zimmer • Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
biochemical cycles are necessarily catalytic.
Nick Lane • Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
Among the other proponents of gain-of-function research was one Anthony Fauci. In December 2011, he was the lead author—along with Dr. Francis Collins, the head of the NIH—of a Washington Post opinion piece headlined “A Flu Virus Risk Worth Taking.”
Alex Berenson • Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
Looking back to our ancestors again, those who wanted to learn new things had a survival advantage.
Marc Milstein • The Age-Proof Brain
the flow of energy and matter through cells structures biological information rather than the other way around.
Nick Lane • Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
even though genes regularly move between the branches of life, the branches remain distinct.
Carl Zimmer • Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
interference (RNAi).
Thomas R. Cech • The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
To perform its thermodynamic function, life must acquire