I still cannot conceal from you my feeling of exultation as I first watched these exquisite creatures emerging before my eyes". All the way through the book, he seizes happy analogies, bright metaphors and shining images to light up his passion and our darkness: just as he makes his biomorphs seem alive, so he has a way of making living things seem transcendent.
All the way through the book, he seizes happy analogies, bright metaphors and shining images to light up his passion and our darkness: just as he makes his biomorphs seem alive, so he has a way of making living things seem transcendent.
Proving, with statistical certainty, that low-level pesticide exposure makes living things more vulnerable to disease is notoriously difficult.
All the raw materials to make living things come from the Earth in the first place and then go back to it when the thing dies.
It began with genomics, the art of sequencing genomes swiftly and cheaply, but has been followed by transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and many other "omics" besides - all of them technologies for interrogating en masse the molecular devices that make living things live.
Though it's behind a paywall, here's a teaser from a recent review by Steven Shapin of Jessica Riskin's The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick, at the LRB.
One of the first stories I was ever really proud of was on the history of green fluorescent protein, or GFP, a glowing protein found in jellyfish that can be used to make living things glow.
Jessica Riskin's The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument Over What Makes Living Things Tick explores the history of a particular principle that the life sciences should not ascribe agency to natural phenomena and traces its remarkable history all the way back to the seventeenth century and the automata of early modern Europe.
From a recent review of Jessica Riskin's The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick, by George Scialabba at Inference: According to the delightful science fiction romance film, Her, artificial intelligences also socialize, or will before long.
However, Yang-tonifying herbs matched with the right Yin-tonifying herbs can make living things grow freely and flourish by eliminating the side effects of each other.
Inside the atoms of living things, he says, are living things made of atoms which themselves have living things made of atoms, and so on, to the infinitely small.
