The Hidden Architects of Your DNA: How Water Molecules Drive Gene Transcription

Inside every cell in your body, right now, a molecular machine is threading its way along a strand of DNA and reading it. The enzyme is called RNA polymerase II, and it is perhaps the most consequential piece of biological machinery evolution has ever produced: without it, none of your genes get expressed, no proteins get made, nothing works. Scientists have known this for decades. What they have never quite managed to pin down is exactly how the chemistry happens at the level of individual...