Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-270) and index.
Contents:
Part One: Taking membranes apart, isolating a molecular pump. What membranes can tell a historian and philosopher of the life sciences ; Active matter -- Part Two: Remaking membranes and molecular machines. Synthesizing cells and molecules : mechanisms as "plug-and-play" ; Biochip fever: life and technology in the 1980s.
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