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Creating life in the lab : how new discoveries in synthetic biology make a case for the Creator / Fazale Rana.
- Title
- Creating life in the lab : how new discoveries in synthetic biology make a case for the Creator / Fazale Rana.
- Author
- Rana, Fazale, 1963-
- Publication
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Books, c2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | BL255 .R37 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 235 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Fazale Rana details the fascinating quest for synthetic life and argues convincingly that when scientists succeed in creating life in the lab, they will unwittingly undermine the evolutionary explanation for the origin of life, demonstrating instead that undirected chemical processes cannot produce a living entity. --from publisher description.
- Subject
- Note
- "Reasons to Believe."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-229) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Waking up in Frankenstein's dream -- Life is like music -- Blessed by a new species -- Treading in the steps already marked -- Becoming acquainted with the principals and principles -- A scientist's splendor -- The particulars of life's formation -- Conquering the challenges -- Promised impossibilities -- The agony of reflections -- United by no link -- A thousand other miseries -- Persevere in exile.
- ISBN
- 9780801072093 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0801072093 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010036575
- OCLC
- 613427145
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library