What Is Life? Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology

  • Ed Regis
Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2008. 208 pp. $22 9780374288518 | ISBN: 978-0-3742-8851-8

Book titles should display ambition, and Ed Regis' latest certainly does that. Implicit is progress between two areas of biology. What Is Life? recalls Erwin Schrödinger's famous book of the same name that encouraged many physicists to begin working in molecular biology in the 1940s; synthetic biology is the fast-moving area today.

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