You Under the Microscope

ISBN-13: 9781032272818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 72 str.

Jenn Dlugos; Charlie Hatton

Opis

You Under the Microscope explores the unseen and unusual microscopic processes happening around us-and on us, and inside us!-every day. Fun, colorful, and ingeniously illustrated, this book highlights the far out and fabulous things happening under, on, and occasionally up our noses. Ooh and ahh at the infographics exploring tiny creatures living on our faces, the trillions of bacteria and viruses within our bodies, the genes we've never seen but (literally) couldn't live without, and even medical marvels like 3D-printed organs.

With dozens of novel and fascinating scientific tidbits presented in a familiar setting-you!-this book is for anyone interested in learning more about human biology, microbes, genetics, cutting-edge medicine or simply seeing the everyday a little bit differently.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Germs Get Under (and On) Your Skin  2. Germopolis  3. Many More Microbiomes  4. It Takes Guts to Be This Germy  5. Balancing Your Gut Bacteria Like a Pro (or a Pre!)  6. Bring Back My Biome to Me  7. Let’s Have Some Fun(gi)  8. Mite You Spare a Follicle?  9. Ah-CHOO! It’s Dust Mitey in Here  10. Beds, Bugs and Beyond  11. Incredibly Crafty Critters  12. I Spy, Inside My Little Eye…  13. Microbes to the Rescue!  14. We All Go Viral  15. If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Swallow ‘Em Whole  16. Put Away That DNA!  17. Family Reunions are Bananas (Literally)  18. Too Much of a Good Gene? 19. Hox Rocks!  20. Balanced on the Hedge  21. Telo Me Your Life Story  22. Just Here to Interfere  23. When Your Honker is Honking  24. Ugh, Brain Freeze!  25. Nerves Made for Speed  26. Human See, Human Do  27. The Thinker is a Shrinker  28. You Stem from Stem Cells  29. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle  30. A Nifty Trip from Crypt to Tip  31. Human Print Queue  32. Endo? Exo? Who Crine Figure this Out?  33. Keep the Beat  34. Peculiar Platelets  35. Lymph is No Wimp  36. Call In the (Immuno) Cavalry  37. Fight Back with a Vac(cine) 38. What Do You Want, or What Do You Needle?  39. “Big Eaters”, Big Appetites  40. Eye Need Some Lasers  Bibliography  About the Authors

O autorze

Jenn Dlugos and Charlie Hatton are Boston-based science nerds who met through stand-up comedy. By day, Jenn writes science textbooks and Charlie slings data for a lab in a cancer research hospital. By night, they make comedy films and dream about starting a new TikTok dance craze called The Microbe Mash.