David Ewing Duncan: Microlands, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Microlands
Buch
- The Future of Life on Earth (and Why It's Smaller Than You Think)
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- Verlag:
- Little, Brown Book Group, 02/2025
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781472144188
- Artikelnummer:
- 11884139
- Umfang:
- 336 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 268 g
- Maße:
- 198 x 126 mm
- Stärke:
- 22 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 6.2.2025
- Hinweis
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Klappentext
'An epic travelogue, brimming with the excitement of discovery. With characteristic panache, Venter unveils the teeming array of bacteria, viruses, and eukaryotes that crowd our planet's oceans'Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies
Upon completing his historic work on the Human Genome Project in 2002, J. Craig Venter declared that he would sequence the genetic code of all life on earth. Thus began a fifteen-year quest to collect DNA from the world's oldest and most abundant form of life: microbes. Boarding the Sorcerer II, a 100-foot sailboat turned research vessel, Venter travelled over 65, 000 miles around the globe to sample ocean water and the microscopic life within.
In this book, Venter and esteemed science writer David Ewing Duncan tell the remarkable story of these expeditions and of the momentous discoveries that ensued - of plant-like bacteria that get their energy from the sun, proteins that metabolize vast amounts of hydrogen, and microbes whose genes shield them from ultraviolet light. The result was a vast library of millions of unknown genes, thousands of unseen protein families, and new lineages of bacteria that revealed the unimaginable complexity of life on earth. Yet despite this exquisite diversity, Venter encountered sobering reminders of how human activity is disturbing the delicate microbial ecosystem that nurtures life on earth. In the face of unprecedented climate change, Venter and Duncan show how we can harness the microbial genome to develop alternative sources of energy, food, and medicine that might ultimately avert our destruction.
A captivating story of exploration and discovery, this book restores microbes to their rightful place as crucial partners in our evolutionary past and guides to our future.
Biografie (J. Craig Venter)
J. Craig Venter, geb. 1947, studierte Biochemie, Physiologie und Pharmakologie in San Diego, USA, und lehrte danach an der State University of New York at Buffalo sowie am Roswell Park Cancer Institute. 1984 wechselte er an die National Institutes of Health und gründete 1992 das Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR). Nach der Entschlüsselung des menschlichen Genoms leitet er heute das J. Craig Venter Institut für Genom-Forschung in Rockville und San Diego. Sein neues Forschungsziel ist die Herstellung künstlicher Organismen.
David Ewing Duncan, J. Craig Venter
Microlands
Aktueller Preis: EUR 14,46