Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
The cells in our bodies consist of molecules, made up of the same carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen atoms found in air and rocks. But molecules, such as water and sugar, are not alive. So how do our cells-…
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