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Uncovering the science behind how and why we age
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Produktdetails
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Seitenzahl: 272
- Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2020
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 308g
- ISBN-13: 9781472936080
- ISBN-10: 1472936086
- Artikelnr.: 57016500
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Seitenzahl: 272
- Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2020
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 308g
- ISBN-13: 9781472936080
- ISBN-10: 1472936086
- Artikelnr.: 57016500
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
Sue Armstrong is a science writer and broadcaster based in Edinburgh. She has worked for a variety of media organisations, including New Scientist, and since the 1980s has undertaken regular assignments for the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS, writing about women's health issues and the AIDS pandemic, among many other topics, and reporting from the frontline in countries as diverse as Haiti, Papua New Guinea, Uganda, Thailand, Namibia and Serbia. Sue has been involved, as presenter, writer and researcher, in several major documentaries for BBC Radio 4; programmes have focused on the biology of ageing, and of drug addiction, alcoholism, obesity, AIDS, CJD, cancer and stress. Her books p53: The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code and Borrowed Time: The Science of How and Why We Age are published by Bloomsbury Sigma.
Prologue
Chapter 1: A question of definition
Chapter 2: Wear and tear?
Chapter 3: Telomeres: the ticking clock in our cells
Chapter 4: Down but not out: senescent cells
Chapter 5: Old before their time
Chapter 6: Ming the mollusc and other models
Chapter 7: It's in the genes
Chapter 8: Eat less; live longer
Chapter 9: Epigenetics and stem cells
Chapter 10: The ageing immune system
Chapter 11: The sting in the tail of HIV/AIDS
Chapter 12: The Big D - familial Alzheimer's disease
Chapter 13: Broken brains
Chapter 14: Turning back the clock
Prologue
Chapter 1: A question of definition
Chapter 2: Wear and tear?
Chapter 3: Telomeres: the ticking clock in our cells
Chapter 4: Down but not out: senescent cells
Chapter 5: Old before their time
Chapter 6: Ming the mollusc and other models
Chapter 7: It's in the genes
Chapter 8: Eat less; live longer
Chapter 9: Epigenetics and stem cells
Chapter 10: The ageing immune system
Chapter 11: The sting in the tail of HIV/AIDS
Chapter 12: The Big D - familial Alzheimer's disease
Chapter 13: Broken brains
Chapter 14: Turning back the clock