Gene Machine The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome - Venki Ramakrishnan, Oneworld Publications

From Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan`Beyond superb' Bill Bryson`A wonderful book' Ian McEwanEveryone knows about DNA, the essence of our being, the molecule where our genes reside. But DNA by itself is useless without a machine to decode the genetic information it contains. The ribosome is that machine.Venki Ramakrishnan tells the story of the race to uncover its enormously complex structure, a fundamental breakthrough that resolves an ancient mystery of life itself.