The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body

ISBN-13: 9780141046532 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 352 str.

Frances Ashcroft

Opis

Can someone really die of fright? How do cocaine, LSD and morphine work? Why do chilli peppers taste hot? This book reveals the secrets of ion channels, which produce the electrical signals in our cells.

Recenzje

This is a wonderful book. Frances Ashcroft has a rare gift for making difficult subjects accessible and fascinating Bill Bryson

O autorze

Frances Ashcroft is Professor of Physiology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Trinity College Oxford. She is also Director of OXION, a consortium of scientists studying ion channels, the heroes of this book. Her scientific research focuses on how a rise in your blood sugar level stimulates the release of insulin and what why this process goes wrong in diabetes. She has won many prizes for her research, most recently the L'Oreal/UNESCO 2012 Women in Science award. She is also a recipient of the Lewis Thomas Prize for Science Writing for The Spark of Life. Her first book for the general reader was Life at the Extremes: The Science of Survival.