How Life Works

1. Prologue
2. 1. The End of the Machine: A New View of Life
3. 2. Genes: What DNA Really Does
4. 3. RNA and Transcription: Reading the Message
5. 4. Proteins: Structure and Unstructure
6. 5. Networks: The Webs That Make Us
7. 6. Cells: Decisions, Decisions
8. 7. Tissues: How to Build, When to Stop
9. 8. Bodies: Uncovering the Pattern
10. 9. Agency: How Life Gets Goals and Purpose
11. 10. Troubleshooting: Rethinking Medicine
12. 11. Making and Hacking: Redesigning Life
13. Epilogue