{"product_id":"membranes-to-molecular-machines-by-mathias-grote-9780226625157","title":"Membranes to Molecular Machines","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\nToday's science tells us that our bodies are filled with molecular machinery that orchestrates all sorts of life processes. When we think, microscopic \"channels\" open and close in our brain cell membranes; when we run, tiny \"motors\" spin in our muscle cell membranes; and when we see, light operates \"molecular switches\" in our eyes and nerves. A molecular-mechanical vision of life has become commonplace in both the halls of philosophy and the offices of drug companies, where researchers are developing “proton pump inhibitors” or medicines similar to Prozac.\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMembranes to Molecular Machines\u003c\/i\u003e explores just how late twentieth-century science came to think of our cells and bodies this way. This story is told through the lens of membrane research, an unwritten history at the crossroads of molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, and the neurosciences, that directly feeds into today's synthetic biology as well as nano- and biotechnology. Mathias Grote shows how these sciences not only have made us think differently about life, but they have also, by reworking what membranes and proteins represent in laboratories, allowed us to manipulate life as \"active matter\" in new ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCovering the science of biological membranes in the United States and Europe from the mid-1960s to the 1990s, this book connects that history to contemporary work with optogenetics, a method for stimulating individual neurons using light, and will enlighten and provoke anyone interested in the intersection of chemical research and the life sciences—from practitioner to historian to philosopher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe research described in the book and its central actor, Dieter Oesterhelt, were honoured with the 2021 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for his contribution to the development of optogenetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46854671925484,"sku":"9780226625157","price":91.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/516247ef1a5c7f2eed0b4459c9ee975a.jpg?v=1759266580","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/membranes-to-molecular-machines-by-mathias-grote-9780226625157","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}