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Annals of Botany 91: 404-405, 2002
© 2002 Annals of Botany Company

Pollack, G.H. Cells, gels and the engines of life. (A new, unifying approach to cell function) 1st edn.

JOHN ANDRALOJC

Cells, gels and the engines of life. (A new, unifying approach to cell function) 1st edn.
Pollack GH. 2001.
Seattle: Ebner and Sons Publishers.
$49·50 (hardback); $27·95 (softback). 305 pp.

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In the light of this fascinating book, cell scientists and science teachers who are unfamiliar with the author’s work may want to rethink many fundamental processes that they had hitherto accepted and taught. Cellular properties and functions as diverse as cellular integrity, ion gradients, action potentials, muscle contraction, cytoplasmic streaming, microtubule function, cell division and secretion are rationalized using the same unifying principles. Central to the argument is a consideration of the physical properties . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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