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A renowned biochemist reveals a scientific renaissance that is hiding in plain sight--the elusive Krebs cycle, the "perfect circle" at the heart of metabolism, discussing why it is still spinning at the heart of life and death today. Lane reveals the beautiful, violent world within our cells, where hydrogen atoms are stripped from the carbon skeletons of food and fed to the ravenous beast of oxygen. Yet this same cycle, spinning in reverse, also created...