Metabolism and medicine. The physics of biological engines / Volume 1, (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Physics of biological engines
• Further Information: Note: Brian Fertig.
• Authors: Fertig, Brian
• Contents: Contents Preface to Volume One.................................................................................................................................xiii Prologue........................................................................................................................................................xvii Acknowledgments.........................................................................................................................................xxi Personal Statements...................................................................................................................................... xxv 1. Biological Thermodynamics: On Energy, Information, and Its Evil Twin, Entropy ...................... 1 2. Biological Engines and the Molecular Machinery of Life ........................................................................ 53 3. From Quantum Biology to Quantum Medicine ...................................................................................... 95 4. From Systems Biology to Systems Medicine .......................................................................................181 5. Introduction to the Roadmap of Future Medicine: The Physiological Fitness Landscape ........... 245 6. Science Seen Through the Lessons of Life ......................................................................... 331
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 616.39; Metabolism -- Regulation; Metabolism -- Disorders
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000472158; 9781000472134; 9781003149873
• Related ISBNs: 9780367699918
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