Comments on: Book review – Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome/2018/09/28/book-review-gene-machine-the-race-to-decipher-the-secrets-of-the-ribosome/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Mon, 22 May 2023 17:54:45 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/09/28/book-review-gene-machine-the-race-to-decipher-the-secrets-of-the-ribosome/comment-page-1/#comment-23772Fri, 06 Aug 2021 10:45:06 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2291#comment-23772[…] that RNA can have enzymatic activity (so-called ribozymes) and that it sits at the heart of ribosomes. Lastly, the metabolism-first school argues that energy underlies everything, for without a […]

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]]>By: Book review – Kin: How We Came to Know Our Microbe Relatives | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/09/28/book-review-gene-machine-the-race-to-decipher-the-secrets-of-the-ribosome/comment-page-1/#comment-2423Wed, 30 Jan 2019 10:05:44 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2291#comment-2423[…] using RNA as an intermediary, into proteins, the actual workhorses in a cell (see also my review of Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome). Since all cells, whether from multicellular organisms or bacteria, rely on proteins, the ribosome […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/09/28/book-review-gene-machine-the-race-to-decipher-the-secrets-of-the-ribosome/comment-page-1/#comment-2271Sun, 13 Jan 2019 10:00:55 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2291#comment-2271[…] my review of Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome you will remember the basics of the story. DNA is read and transcribed into a single-stranded form […]

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]]>By: Book review – Microbes from Hell | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/09/28/book-review-gene-machine-the-race-to-decipher-the-secrets-of-the-ribosome/comment-page-1/#comment-1454Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:51:23 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2291#comment-1454[…] looking at ribosomal RNA (though completely not overlapping with Ramakrishnan’s story in Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome), viruses and their role in the origin of life, and the various evolutionary scenarios that have […]

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]]>By: inquisitivebiologist/2018/09/28/book-review-gene-machine-the-race-to-decipher-the-secrets-of-the-ribosome/comment-page-1/#comment-1320Sat, 29 Sep 2018 09:39:26 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2291#comment-1320In reply to thescienceboi.

Thanks! Awesome to hear you got to meet him. I got a quick reply from Venki on the review, and he indeed strikes me as a very down-to-earth, approachable man.

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]]>By: thescienceboi/2018/09/28/book-review-gene-machine-the-race-to-decipher-the-secrets-of-the-ribosome/comment-page-1/#comment-1317Sat, 29 Sep 2018 09:30:58 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2291#comment-1317Fantastic review! I had the pleasure of meeting Venki earlier this year.

Very approachable and easy to talk to considering his huge success and fame.

He mentioned back then that this book would be coming out soon but after reading this review, I’ll be picking up a copy for sure!

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]]>By: Book review – The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/09/28/book-review-gene-machine-the-race-to-decipher-the-secrets-of-the-ribosome/comment-page-1/#comment-1311Fri, 28 Sep 2018 08:19:05 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2291#comment-1311[…] into the proteins that actually do all the work that DNA codes for (more on that in my review of Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome). Using this, he discovered a completely new kingdom of single-celled life forms, the Archaea, […]

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