The processes in a single living cell are akin to that of a city teeming with molecular inhabitants that move, communicate, cooperate, and compete. In this Very Short Introduction, Philip Ball explores the role of the molecule in and around us how, for example, a single fertilized egg cangrow into a multicelled Mozart, what makes spiders silk insoluble in the morning dew, and how this molecular dynamism is being captured in the laboratory, promising to reinvent chemistry as the central creative science of the century.
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33,488 words184 pagesLexile 1220L
Published 20039780192854308
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