Name: The Darwin Machine (en Inglés)
SKU: 69218027
Price: 30.85 USD
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Author: Julian R. Ashmore
ISBN: 9798896655176

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Libro Físico

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NobleTrex Press

Autor

Julian R. Ashmore

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Inglés

N° páginas

304

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9798896655176

The Darwin Machine (en Inglés)

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How do scientists make evolution happen on command—and use it to build molecules nature never invented? The Darwin Machine answers that question through one of modern biotechnology’s most powerful ideas: directed evolution. For curious general readers, it reveals how Darwin’s slow, blind process became a laboratory tool that can redesign enzymes, improve medicines, and reshape manufacturing, all by letting tiny biological machines compete, survive, and improve at astonishing speed. Readers will discover why proteins are so exquisitely picky, how DNA can be linked to performance so winners can be copied, and why the hardest part is often not creating possibilities but finding the rare success among millions of failures. Along the way, the book follows Frances Arnold’s Nobel Prize-winning breakthrough and explores how evolved enzymes now help make cleaner chemicals, tougher industrial catalysts, better detergents, biofuels, and antibody drugs. What makes this book special is its combination of vivid storytelling and clear explanation. It treats directed evolution not as a technical recipe but as a profound new way of thinking: a Darwin machine built by human hands. Accessible, surprising, and forward-looking, it shows how one simple algorithm is changing chemistry, industry, and the future of biological invention.