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Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
by Nick Lane
The Krebs cycle as the engine of life and possibly its origin, with implications for cancer and consciousness. Lane's most ambitious.
Read it if…
you want metabolism as the center of biology.
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Skip it if…
you fear chemistry.
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Three things you will actually use
- Metabolism precedes genes.
- Flux is life.
- Cancer is metabolic too.
Do this first
Read the chapters on cancer.
Our verdict
Lane's Krebs cycle.
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