The Machinery of Life
Illustrations of the cell drawn to scale and in context, showing molecular machinery as it is actually crowded together.
David S. Goodsell paints the interior of the cell at magnifications of a million times, and at correct density, with proteins, ribosomes, membranes and viruses shown crowded together as they actually are, rather than floating in the empty space of a textbook diagram. The accompanying text explains what each molecular machine does and how the parts fit. This second edition adds new illustrations and material on the molecular basis of disease and medicine.
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Carl Zimmer
If they want to show how genes are used to make proteins, they show a very tiny, isolated piece of DNA, and then an isolated strand of RNA, and an isolated ribosome that uses the RNA to make a protein – as if that was all there was in the cell. But the fact is that every cell is actually crammed with molecules, all of which have really important things to do.
Interview · September 2012
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