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"Read this book and you will learn how photosynthesis was discovered, how it works, and how we can produce more food to feed the world." - PAUL NURSE, Nobel Prize winner and author of What is Life?
In Light to Life, biologist Raffael Jovine takes us on a journey of…
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Life on earth today is mostly a matter of photosynthesis and it is this that is at the heart of the environmental crisis. Photosynthesis powers the carbon cycle through the air, living things, the soil and the waters. But although photosynthesis feeds on CO2, it can no longer balance the carbon equation now that so much more CO2 is released by human technologies. Working at MIT, Jovine has researched attempts to improve photosynthesis to remediate the earth. The process is understood at the molecular levels and synthetic biology techniques should be able to improve on nature. We are not there…
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