Tom Ireland

Broschiertes Buch

The Good Virus

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

Beschreibung

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

Autor

Tom Ireland is a freelance science journalist and award-winning magazine editor. As a freelance journalist he has written science stories for outlets including BBC News, New Scientist and the Observer. He is the editor of The Biologist, the magazine of the Royal Society of Biology. In 2021 he won the Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction for The Good Virus.

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

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