Tom Ireland

The Good Virus

The Mysterious Microbes that Rule Our World, Shape Our Health and Can Save Our Future

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Produktbeschreibung

The story of how "good viruses" can play a crucial role in our lives, our health and the health of our planet.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 130mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9781529365283
• ISBN-10: 1529365287
• Artikelnr.: 70609079

Autorenporträt

Tom Ireland

Rezensionen

Most viruses do no harm to humans - and, as this fascinating book explains, a large class of them might even prove our saviours ... [Phages] regulate our gut microbiome, are crucial to marine ecosystems, and inspired the modern Crispr technique of gene-editing ... All this and more is thrillingly recounted in Tom Ireland's superb book. This is real luxury-class science writing, exploring how a "Stalin-tainted" idea from long ago can be rehabilitated, alternating scientist interviews and vivid case studies of miraculous-seeming cures with historical narrative and limpid biotechnological explanations ... He also demonstrates excellent comic timing. Steven Poole Telegraph