Full name: Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life

Author: Carl Zimmer Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780307276865 9780375424304 0307276864 037542430X

In this fascinating and utterly engaging book, Carl Zimmer traces E. coli's pivotal role in the history of biology, from the discovery of DNA to the latest advances in biotechnology. He reveals the many surprising and alarming parallels between E. coli's life and our own. And he describes how E. coli changes in real time, revealing billions of years of history encoded within its genome. E. coli is also the most engineered species on Earth, and as scientists retool this microbe to produce life-saving drugs and clean fuel, they are discovering just how far the definition of life can be stretched. Similar books: The Tangled Tree by David Quammen A Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer Genome by Matt Ridley Evolution by James A. Shapiro Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane Nature via Nurture by Matt Ridley I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong Wonders of Life by Brian Cox The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer A New Science of Life by Rupert Sheldrake Life at the Extremes by Frances Ashcroft River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins The Book of Humans by Adam Rutherford The Vital Question by Nick Lane QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip S. Thorne Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur by Tom Lancaster Nightwatch by Terence Dickinson