From X-Rays to DNA: How Engineering Drives Biology

by W. David Lee, Jeffrey Drazen, Robert S Langer, et al.

An argument that technology accelerates biological discovery, with case studies ranging from chromosome discovery with early microscopes to how DNA replicates using radioisotope labels.

Engineering has been an essential collaborator in biological research and breakthroughs in biology are often enabled by technological advances. Decoding the double helix structure of DNA, for example, only became possible after significant advances...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262019779
• ISBN13: 9780262019774
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher