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Carl Zimmer's Paean to <cite>E. Coli</cite> Hits Bookstores

Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life, a new book from Wired.com contributor, Carl Zimmer, is available today at a bookstore near you. Carl sent out an email in which he described the book: Microcosm is about what it means to be alive. Are there rules that all living things must obey? Is […]

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Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life, a new book from Wired.com contributor, Carl Zimmer, is available today at a bookstore near you. Carl sent out an email in which he described the book:

Microcosm is about what it means to be alive. Are there rules that all living things must obey? Is death inevitable? If we rewound the tape of life and let evolution run a second time, would it end up like the original? To explore these questions, I've written an (un)natural history of E. coli. Scientists have been earning Nobel Prizes for decades now by poking and prodding this microbe, and their work is coalescing into an extraordinary portrait of a living thing. And today, with engineered E. coli spewing out everything from insulin to jet fuel, the microbe is redefining the boundaries of life itself.

Check out Carl's columns on Wired.com.

Link: Microcosm's Amazon Page