A Planet of Viruses
A Medical, Science Nature, Health book. Human rhinoviruses may help train our immune systems not to overreact to...
Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. We are most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or the flu, but viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long, in fact, that we are actually part virus: the human genome contains more DNA from viruses than our own genes. Meanwhile, scientists are discovering viruses everywhere they look: in the soil, in the ocean, even in caves miles underground.This fascinating book explores the...
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- Pages: 109 pages
- ISBN: 9780226983363 / 0
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Influenza. If you close your eyes and say the word aloud, it sounds lovely. It would make a good name for a pleasant, ancient Italian village. Carl Zimmer, A Planet of Viruses // The very word virus began as a contradiction. We inherited the word from the Roman Empire, where it meant, at once, the venom of a snake or the semen of a man. Creation and destruction in one word. Carl Zimmer, A Planet of Viruses // At long last, we may be returning to the original two-sided sense of the word virus, which originally signified either a life-giving substance or a deadly venom. Viruses are indeed exquisitely deadly, but they have provided the world with some of its most important innovations. Creation and destruction join together once more. Carl Zimmer, A Planet of Viruses //
A brief introduction to the role of viruses in life on earth. Ideally suited for the common reader; there is nothing stated that those studying microbiology wouldn't already know, but enjoyable and gripping nonetheless. everyone who is looking for a short-read about viruses Carl Zimmer, one of the most gifted and engaging science writers of our time, has done it again. Few voices bring life to science this way, or indeed to the very rocks on which you walk. His details are always striking and intriguing. Here's an example: The human genome contains about 23,000 genes, coding sequences making up about 1.2%...
