Nick Lane is a British biochemist

Biochemist

Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. Typical biochemists study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. The prefix of "bio" in "biochemist" can be understood as a fusion of "biological chemist."-Role:...

. He holds the post of honorary reader and is the first Provost's Venture Research Fellow at University College London

University College London

University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...

 and was formerly strategic director at Adelphi MediCine, a medical multimedia company. He is the author of three popular science books and many articles. His latest book, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution, won the 2010 Royal Society Prize for Science Books.

Books

• Oxygen: The molecule that made the world (ISBN 978-1861978486)

• Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
  Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
  Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life is a 2005 popular science book by Nick Lane of University College London, which argues that mitochondria are central to questions of the evolution of multicellularity, the evolution of sexual reproduction, and to the process of...
  
  (ISBN 978-0199205646)

• Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (ISBN 978-1861978486)

Articles

• 'Genesis Revisited', New Scientist 7 August 2010
• 'Biodiversity: On the origin of bar codes', Nature 19 November 2009
• 'Cell biology: Power games', Nature 25 October 2006
• 'Mitochondrial disease: Powerhouse of disease', Nature 29 March 2006

External links

• Official website