A Very Short Introduction: Molecules

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• In terms of the processes that take place within a living cell, it is like a bustling city, but its inhabitants are molecules that move, communicate, cooperate, and compete with each other.
• In this Very Short Introduction, Philip Ball explores the role of molecules in everything that happens around us
•  For example, how does a fertilized egg grow into a multicellular adult like Mozart? Why does spider silk not dissolve in the morning dew? He also explores how these molecular dynamics play out in the laboratory, in a way that promises to re-introduce chemistry as the central creative science of this century.