About the Book: Gene Machine
Everyone knows about DNA. It is the essence of our being, influencing who we
are and what we pass on to our children. But the information in DNA cant be used
without a machine to decode it. The ribosome is that machine. Older than DNA
itself, it is the mother of all molecules. Virtually every molecule made in
every cell was either made by the ribosome or by proteins that were themselves
made by the ribosome. Venki Ramakrishnan tells the story of the race to uncover
the ribosomes enormously complex structure, a fundamental breakthrough that
resolves an ancient mystery of life