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  title info:
    title: What Sustains Life?
    sub title: Consilient Mechanisms for Protein-Based Machines and Materials
  name:
    name part: Urry, Dan W.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 632 p. 279 illus., 55 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: What Sustains Life? How can something so seemingly improbable and fragile as life exist in such hardy and resilient forms? The question has inspired intrigue among curious humans, from physicists to theologians, for centuries. Fascinated by this question, Dr Dan W. Urry, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota, St Paul, begins his investigation into the sustenance of life through an examination of the fundamental design of elastic-contractile model proteins. What does an understanding of these mechanisms lend to the comprehension of life itself? Encapsulating three decades of Dr. Urry’s collaborative research and analysis, his initial investigation into the basis of life expands include an increasingly complex and diverse story that is part science, part personal memoir and wholly fascinating.
  table of contents: What Sustains Life? An Overview -- The Pilgrimage: Highlights in Our Understanding of the Products and Components of Living Organisms -- Likelihood of Life’s Protein Machines: Extravagant in Construction Yet Efficient in Function -- Consilient Mechanisms for Diverse Protein-based Machines: The Efficient Comprehensive Hydrophobic Effect -- On the Evolution of Protein-based Machines (Toward Complexity of Structure and Diversity of Function) -- Biology Thrives Near a Movable Cusp of Insolubility -- Consilient Mechanisms for Protein-based machines of Biology -- Advanced Materials for the Future: Protein-based Materials with Potential to Sustain Individual Health and Societal Development -- Epilogue.
  note: by Dan W. Urry.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Community ecology, Biotic
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics
  subject:
    topic: Biological physics
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics and Biological Physics
  subject:
    topic: Community & Population Ecology
  classification: QH359-425
  classification: 576.8
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      title: Springer eBooks
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