Tag Archives: molecular biology

Book review: Insulin – The crooked timber

March 2, 2022

Arpan K. Banerjee Solihull, United Kingdom   Cover of Insulin – The Crooked Timber: A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold by Kersten T. Hall. The title of this interesting book is taken from the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who wrote that: “Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing […]

Book review: A Place in History: The Biography of John C. Kendrew

April 21, 2021

Arpan K. Banerjee Solihull, United Kingdom   Cover of A Place in History: The Biography of John C. Kendrew by Paul M. Wassarman. Remarkable scientific advances in the twentieth century were also crucial for the field of medicine. In the new field of molecular biology, for example, scientists applied the principles of physics and chemistry […]

Book review: Architects of Structural Biology

December 15, 2020

Arpan K. Banerjee Solihull, United Kingdom   Cover of Architects of Structural Biology by John Meurig Thomas. Modern twenty-first-century high-technology medicine, which we now take for granted, was only made possible by remarkable advances in the physical and biological sciences of the twentieth century. In Architects of Structural Biology, the contributions of four scientific giants […]