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Life on the edge

by Johnjoe McFadden

2014 353 pages eng ★ 4.3 (3 ratings)

Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? It is remarkable that in this age of cloning and even synthetic biology, nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredien…

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