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Mitochondria
Mitochondria Bacteria to Humans, the Hidden Ruler of Evolution, is the seventh book in the Rootwiper Oppavinia series. And the contents are listed. Mitochondria are tiny organelles that produce almost all of the energy we use, and its amazing how these small power plants regulate our lives. Mitochondria contain an average of 300 to 400 cells per cell, and the total number of mitochondria is about 1 in total. Scientists argue that without mitochondrial enslavement, we all would have escaped the germ that is now a single-celled organism. In fact, the importance of mitochondria is beyond imagination. Today, mitochondria are at the center of various research fields dealing with prehistoric anthropology, genetic diseases, apoptosis, infertility, aging, bioenergetics, sex and eukaryotic cells. Author Nick Lane looks at the world we live in from the mitochondrial point of view and seeks answers to some of the most important challenges in biology, such as the formation of complexity, the origin of life, sex and fertility, death, and the expectation of eternal life.
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Published January 23, 2009
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About the author
Nick Lane
25 books984 followersDr Nick Lane is a British biochemist and writer. He was awarded the first Provost's Venture Research Prize in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London, where he is now a Reader in Evolutionary Biochemistry. Dr Lane’s research deals with evolutionary biochemistry and bioenergetics, focusing on the origin of life and the evolution of complex cells. Dr Lane was a founding member of the UCL Consortium for Mitochondrial Research, and is leading the UCL Research Frontiers Origins of Life programme. He was awarded the 2011 BMC Research Award for Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Evolution, and the 2015 Biochemical Society Award for his sustained and diverse contribution to the molecular life sciences and the public understanding of science.
Nick Lane is the author of three acclaimed books on evolutionary biochemistry, which have sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide, and have been translated into 20 languages.
Nick's first book, Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World (OUP, 2002) is a sweeping history of the relationship between life and our planet, and the paradoxical ways in which adaptations to oxygen play out in our own lives and deaths. It was selected as one of the Sunday Times Books of the Year for 2002.
His second book, Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (OUP, 2005) is an exploration of the extraordinary effects that mitochondria have had on the evolution of complex life. It was selected as one of The Economist's Books of the Year for 2005, and shortlisted for the 2006 Royal Society Aventis Science Book Prize and the Times Higher Young Academic Author of the Year Award.
Nick's most recent book, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Profile/Norton 2009) is a celebration of the inventiveness of life, and of our own ability to read the deep past to reconstruct the history of life on earth. The great inventions are: the origin of life, DNA, photosynthesis, the complex cell, sex, movement, sight, hot blood, consciousness and death. Life Ascending won the 2010 Royal Society Prize for Science Books, and was named a Book of the Year by New Scientist, Nature, the Times and the Independent, the latter describing him as “one of the most exciting science writers of our time.”
Nick's next book, due to be published in 2015 by Norton and Profile, is entitled The Vital Question. Why is life the way it is? It will attack a central problem in biology - why did complex life arise only once in four billion years, and why does all complex life share so many peculiar properties, from sex and speciation to senescence?
Nick was also a co-editor of Life in the Frozen State (CRC Press, 2004), the first major text book on cryobiology in the genomic era.
Peer-reviewed articles by Nick Lane have been published in top international journals, including Nature, Science and Cell, and he has published many features in magazines like New Scientist and Scientific American. He has appeared regularly on TV and radio, and speaks in schools and at literary and science festivals. He also worked for several years in the pharmaceutical industry, ultimately as Strategic Director of Medi Cine, a medical multimedia company based in London, where he was responsible for developing interactive approaches to medical education.
Nick is married to Dr Ana Hidalgo-Simon and lives in London with their two young sons, Eneko and Hugo. He spent many years clinging to rock faces in search of fossils and thrills, but his practical interest in palaeontology is rarely rewarded with more than a devil’s toenail. When not climbing, writing or hunting for wild campsites, he can occasionally be found playing the fiddle in London pubs with the Celtic ensemble Probably Not, or exploring Romanesque churches.
http://www.nick-lane.net/About%20Nick...
Nick Lane is the author of three acclaimed books on evolutionary biochemistry, which have sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide, and have been translated into 20 languages.
Nick's first book, Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World (OUP, 2002) is a sweeping history of the relationship between life and our planet, and the paradoxical ways in which adaptations to oxygen play out in our own lives and deaths. It was selected as one of the Sunday Times Books of the Year for 2002.
His second book, Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (OUP, 2005) is an exploration of the extraordinary effects that mitochondria have had on the evolution of complex life. It was selected as one of The Economist's Books of the Year for 2005, and shortlisted for the 2006 Royal Society Aventis Science Book Prize and the Times Higher Young Academic Author of the Year Award.
Nick's most recent book, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Profile/Norton 2009) is a celebration of the inventiveness of life, and of our own ability to read the deep past to reconstruct the history of life on earth. The great inventions are: the origin of life, DNA, photosynthesis, the complex cell, sex, movement, sight, hot blood, consciousness and death. Life Ascending won the 2010 Royal Society Prize for Science Books, and was named a Book of the Year by New Scientist, Nature, the Times and the Independent, the latter describing him as “one of the most exciting science writers of our time.”
Nick's next book, due to be published in 2015 by Norton and Profile, is entitled The Vital Question. Why is life the way it is? It will attack a central problem in biology - why did complex life arise only once in four billion years, and why does all complex life share so many peculiar properties, from sex and speciation to senescence?
Nick was also a co-editor of Life in the Frozen State (CRC Press, 2004), the first major text book on cryobiology in the genomic era.
Peer-reviewed articles by Nick Lane have been published in top international journals, including Nature, Science and Cell, and he has published many features in magazines like New Scientist and Scientific American. He has appeared regularly on TV and radio, and speaks in schools and at literary and science festivals. He also worked for several years in the pharmaceutical industry, ultimately as Strategic Director of Medi Cine, a medical multimedia company based in London, where he was responsible for developing interactive approaches to medical education.
Nick is married to Dr Ana Hidalgo-Simon and lives in London with their two young sons, Eneko and Hugo. He spent many years clinging to rock faces in search of fossils and thrills, but his practical interest in palaeontology is rarely rewarded with more than a devil’s toenail. When not climbing, writing or hunting for wild campsites, he can occasionally be found playing the fiddle in London pubs with the Celtic ensemble Probably Not, or exploring Romanesque churches.
http://www.nick-lane.net/About%20Nick...
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December 27, 2024
원래 맨 처음 보려더 닉 레인의 책을 이제야 읽었다. 김상욱 교수의 떨림과 울림에서 추천을 했었는데 바이털 퀘스천, 트렌스포머를 거쳐 세번째로 읽게 되었다. 다음은 산소가 될거 같다.
살짹 벽돌책 735페이지이지만 선행학습이 잘되어 있어서 그런지 추리소설 읽듯이 잘읽혔다. 근데 일주일 걸린거 보면 막상 완전 쉽고 그런 책이 아니라 상당히 어려운데 과학자들이 삽질한 결과가 궁금해서 꾸역꾸역 읽게 된다고 할까?
부실하게 요약해보면 우리는 다세포생물이다. 진핵생물이나고 하기도하다. 세균, 고세균, 다세포생물 이렇게 나뉘는 거다. 지구는 45억년전, 최초의 생물인 세균은 40억년전, 다세포생물은 20억년전에 나타났다. 우리는 숙주인 고세균이 미토콘드리아라는 세균을 포식했다가 공생하게 되면서 나타나게된 생물이다.
우리몸은 세포로 구성되어 있는데, 세포는 막, 핵, 리보솜, 리소좀, 골지체, 미토콘드리아로 구성된다. 미토콘드리아는 에너지를 만들며, 별도의 유전물질을 갖고 있으며, 성과 노화, 항온동물로의 진화의 원인이다.
노화의 원인으로 자유라디컬이 언급되는데, 항산화제 먹어야 소용없고, 단식과 운동, 추위가 노화방지에 효과가 있다는 사실을 이해할 수 있어서 좋았다.
세포자살 아포토시스에 대해 자세히 나오는데 자가포식 오토파지와 비교한 책을 읽고 싶다. 최겸 책을 읽어야하나? 산소도 빨리 보고 싶다.
그리고 다세포 이상에서 진화의 주체는 유전자이지만, 세포가 더 적합하다고 주장하는데 맞는말 같기도 하다. 리차드 도킨스의 이기적 유전자가 인생책이긴 한데 요즘 닉 레인만 읽다보니 잘모르겠다.
사실 그전에 트렌스포머에서 세포에 의식이 있다고 떡밥을 던져줘서 고맙긴 했더랬다. 세포나 미토콘드리아를 배경으로 의인화해서 글쓰면 재밌겠다. 마치 무라카미 하루키의 세계의 끝과 하드보일드 윈더랜드에서 세계의 끝편에 나오는 벽으로 둘러쌓인 마을을 세포로 바꿔서 말이다.
살짹 벽돌책 735페이지이지만 선행학습이 잘되어 있어서 그런지 추리소설 읽듯이 잘읽혔다. 근데 일주일 걸린거 보면 막상 완전 쉽고 그런 책이 아니라 상당히 어려운데 과학자들이 삽질한 결과가 궁금해서 꾸역꾸역 읽게 된다고 할까?
부실하게 요약해보면 우리는 다세포생물이다. 진핵생물이나고 하기도하다. 세균, 고세균, 다세포생물 이렇게 나뉘는 거다. 지구는 45억년전, 최초의 생물인 세균은 40억년전, 다세포생물은 20억년전에 나타났다. 우리는 숙주인 고세균이 미토콘드리아라는 세균을 포식했다가 공생하게 되면서 나타나게된 생물이다.
우리몸은 세포로 구성되어 있는데, 세포는 막, 핵, 리보솜, 리소좀, 골지체, 미토콘드리아로 구성된다. 미토콘드리아는 에너지를 만들며, 별도의 유전물질을 갖고 있으며, 성과 노화, 항온동물로의 진화의 원인이다.
노화의 원인으로 자유라디컬이 언급되는데, 항산화제 먹어야 소용없고, 단식과 운동, 추위가 노화방지에 효과가 있다는 사실을 이해할 수 있어서 좋았다.
세포자살 아포토시스에 대해 자세히 나오는데 자가포식 오토파지와 비교한 책을 읽고 싶다. 최겸 책을 읽어야하나? 산소도 빨리 보고 싶다.
그리고 다세포 이상에서 진화의 주체는 유전자이지만, 세포가 더 적합하다고 주장하는데 맞는말 같기도 하다. 리차드 도킨스의 이기적 유전자가 인생책이긴 한데 요즘 닉 레인만 읽다보니 잘모르겠다.
사실 그전에 트렌스포머에서 세포에 의식이 있다고 떡밥을 던져줘서 고맙긴 했더랬다. 세포나 미토콘드리아를 배경으로 의인화해서 글쓰면 재밌겠다. 마치 무라카미 하루키의 세계의 끝과 하드보일드 윈더랜드에서 세계의 끝편에 나오는 벽으로 둘러쌓인 마을을 세포로 바꿔서 말이다.
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