Tom Ireland

The Good Virus

The Untold Story of Phages: The Most Abundant Life Forms on Earth and What They Can Do For Us

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Produktbeschreibung

The untold story of the most abundant life form on Earth, bacteriophages, and how they play a crucial role in our lives, our health and the health of our planet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 159mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781529365245
• ISBN-10: 1529365244
• Artikelnr.: 67477092

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