The touchstone of life
Subtitle: molecular information, cell communication, and the foundations of life
By: Werner R. Loewenstein.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Information theory in biology; Cell interaction; Cellular signal transduction
Description: In The Touchstone of Life, eminent biophysicist Werner Loewenstein seeks answers to ancient riddles by applying information theory to recent discoveries in molecular biology. Taking us into a microscopic world, he lays bare an all-pervading communication network inside and between our cells - a web of extraordinary beauty, where molecular information flows in gracefully interlaced circles.

Loewenstein then takes us on a journey along that web and we meet the macromolecules, and see how they capture information from their surrounds.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [344]-359) and index.