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frereubuyesterday at 5:34 PM2 repliesview on HN

The post by James Somers that this article references at the top inspired me to buy the David Goodsell book The Machinery of Life. I would seriously recommend that to anyone who doesn't have a background in biology (like me). The phrase is a bit of a cliché, but it genuinely blew my mind, to the extent that I had to read it slowly because there's so much fascinating stuff packed into such a small book. It's obvious to me now, but the fact that so much of this stuff is about physical shapes locking into each other, and doing it at an almost unimaginable speed, was absolutely enthralling.


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flobosgyesterday at 10:12 PM

Check out his[1] Molecule of the Month series (https://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/) if you haven’t already!

[1]: Although he just retired from it. Janet Iwasa will continue the project.

smathyesterday at 5:49 PM

Ha, same here! Bought that book about a year ago after reading that post