Machine Biology

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    • The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
    • By: Venki Ramakrishnan
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome....

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    • By: Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins - foreword
    • Narrated by: Esther Wane
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation. Susan Blackmore shows that once our ancestors acquired the crucial ability to imitate, a second kind of natural selection began....

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    • Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
    • By: Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel
    • Narrated by: Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel, Tim Campbell, Landon Woodson, Amanda Dolan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 15-02-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • What if the miracle that created mRNA vaccines is less a once-in-lifetime event and more the harbinger of the emerging age of synthetic biology? This fusion of biology and computers has a singular goal: to gain access to cells in order to write new—and possibly better—biological code....

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    • How the Convergence of Biology and Engineering Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
    • By: Susan Hockfield
    • Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-2019
    • Language: English
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    • From the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution and how it will change our lives....

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    • The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines - and How It Will Change Our Lives
    • By: Miguel Nicolelis
    • Narrated by: Patrick Egan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 15-03-2011
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A pioneering neuroscientist shows how the long-sought merger of brains with machines is about to become a paradigm-shifting reality.....

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    • How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
    • By: Peter M. Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Paul Hodgson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Part history, part cutting-edge science, part philosophy, Life’s Ratchet takes us from ancient Greece to the laboratories of modern nanotechnology to tell the story of our quest for the machinery of life....

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    • How to Live (in Peace) with Smart Machines
    • By: Dr. Nigel Shadbolt, Roger Hampson
    • Narrated by: Tom McGairl
    • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-2018
    • Language: English
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    • How smart machines are transforming us all - and what we should do about it....

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