Nick Lane, “A Matter of Energy: Biology From First Principles” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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The Importance of a Kidney Transplantation
When i was at school, i i books like richard dorkins, selfish jean and double helix. I read avidly,. at that age, popular science books, and dreamed, like most kids do, of nobel prizes and an undoing something really valuable and important. And so it was, it was very geard to solving a problem, and a very specific problem to do with kidney transplants - one that would make no quite a difference in the world if you could do it. Because we can store these organs for two days at the most. That's a kidney for a liver or along, it's a matter of hours. Soo how the energy works
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