Resurrected proteins, alternate histories and a sure path to modern physiology
Friday, July 4, 2014 - 08:20
in Physics & Chemistry
Joe Thornton's business is resurrection. He doesn't bring back people, or pets, or even proteobacteria. Thornton specializes in the science of re-engineering long-gone proteins. His artful attempts to re-create the path by which we arrived in the present-tense have terminated with the following revelation: there is no other path to the here and now.
