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Cargando... Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life: A New, Unifying Approach to Cell Functionpor Gerald H. Pollack
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An award-winning book that challenges the current wisdom of how cells work in a visionary, provocative, and accessible way... reads like a detective story. This highly praised book emphasises the role of cell water and the gel-like nature of the cell, building on these features to explore the mechanisms of communication, transport, contraction, division, and other essential cell functions. Lucidly written for the non-expert, the book is profound enough for biologists, chemists, physicists and engineers to devour. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The thesis is that while cells are presented in most biology texts as basically bags of water, in fact the dense network of proteins pervading them gives structure to the water, the same structure that is present in gels, and that many of the characteristicbehaviors of cells are not some magic but trivial consequences of the physical chemistry of cells.
The book does a good job of introducing the essential physical chemistry and biology, and my only complaint is that the explanations were not quantitative but, to be fair, the author is trying for as general and popular a book as possible.
The book also does a good job of not being too obsessed with how the whole world is against the author's theories, simply carefully saying what it has to say.
On the other hand, that doesn't mean it's correct. It certainly sounded convincing to me, but I'm not a specialist, and know nothing of the opposing arguments. I'd love to see a book as well-written arguing the opposing viewpoint. ( )