Nano Comes to Life

How Nanotechnology is Transforming Medicine and the Future of Biology

By: Sonia Contera

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

The nanotechnology revolution that will transform human health and longevity

Nano Comes to Life opens a window onto the nanoscale - the infinitesimal realm of proteins and DNA where physics and cellular and molecular biology meet - and introduces listeners to the rapidly evolving nanotechnologies that are allowing us to manipulate the very building blocks of life. Sonia Contera gives an insider's perspective on this new frontier, revealing how nanotechnology enables a new kind of multidisciplinary science that is poised to give us control over our own biology, our health, and our lives.

Drawing on her perspective as one of today's leading researchers in the field, Contera describes the exciting ways in which nanotechnology makes it possible to understand, interact with, and manipulate biology - such as by designing and building artificial structures and even machines at the nanoscale using DNA, proteins, and other biological molecules as materials. In turn, nanotechnology is revolutionizing medicine in ways that will have profound effects on our health and longevity, from nanoscale machines that can target individual cancer cells and deliver drugs more effectively, to nanoantibiotics that can fight resistant bacteria, to the engineering of tissues and organs for research, drug discovery, and transplantation.

The future will bring about the continued fusion of nanotechnology with biology, physics, medicine, and cutting-edge fields like robotics and artificial intelligence, ushering us into a new "transmaterial era." As we contemplate the power, advantages, and risks of accessing and manipulating our own biology, Contera offers insight and hope that we may all share in the benefits of this revolutionary research.

©2019 Princeton University Press (P)2019 Recorded Books

Loved this Book !! CUTTING EDGE SCIENCE

Cutting edge, all encompassing. Science's spectacular achievements in human interdisciplinary biotechnology.

All she tells will happen, is, has, happened, I can't find a practical information book that covers pretty much all encompassing to "What's happening" past entrenched, Medieval Pharma .

These trixter book reviews are all over audible. Most of us and our doctors have NO IDEA...

Wanna know stuff? This book is for you.

Interesting story with a lot of filler

This book gets points for giving a comprehensive overview of exciting developments in an area that's not often covered. However, many of the chapters are full of filler historical information that do not add much to the core story. I felt the book should have been 30% shorter. The reading was ok. A bit flat. Four stars overall for the novel content.

levelheaded

Contera writes with a great balance of optimism and reason, not straying too far into hype (kurzweil) while acknowledging interdisciplinary biology research may offer great hopes for us in the next decades. A key point not discussed in an adjacent book like "The Genesis Machine" is that there is much more to gene expression than the central dogma (DNA to ribosome/rna, rna to amino acid/protein). Mechanical forces, electricity, epigenetics. Great (audio)book.

Informative but dry, with a dose of agitprop

The author should have stuck to the subject of the book which was informative overall. But the last chapter was mostly about obligatory writing about the human rights, sustainability, women empowerment etc.