Germ Stories

2008
ISBN: 978-1-891389-51-1
Verlag: University Science Books

Buch, Englisch, 84 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 237 mm x 310 mm

Nobel Laureate Arthur Kornberg's rhyming tales of the tiny beasties in the germ parade are now available in this beautifully rendered children's picture book. Germ Stories brings the microscopic world to life for the very youngest readers and adults alike with richly imaginative narrations and vividly rendered art and colour photographs.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kornberg, Arthur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Germ Parade.- Staphylococcus Aureus: Food Poisoning.- Salmonella Typhi: Typhoid Fever.- Clostridium Tetani: Tetanus.- Saccharomyces Cerevisiae: Yeast.- Streptococcus Pneumoniae: Pneumonia.- Myxobacterium Xanthus: Germ Wars.- Helicobacter Pylori: Stomach Ulcer.- Penicillium Notatum: Penicillin.- Poliovirus: Polio.- Human Immunodeficiency Virus: AIDS.

Über Autor(innen)

ARTHUR KORNBERG won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1959 for his laboratory synthesis of DNA, and was a recipient of the National Medal of Science. He was the author of a number of major books, including DNA Replication, Second Edition (University Science Books, 2005), The Golden Helix (University Science Books) and For the Love of Enzymes: The Odyssey of a Biochemist (Harvard University Press, 1989). He was Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at the Stanford University School of Medicine until his death in October 2007.