The Spark of Life
Electricity in the Human Body
$33.67
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
24 July 2013
Summary
A spectacular account of how people, just like machines, are powered by electricity - right down to the last cell
From before birth to the last breath we draw, from consciousness to sexual attraction, fighting infection to the beating of our hearts, electricity is essential to everything we think and do.
In The Spark of Life, award-winning physiologist Frances Ashcroft reveals the secrets of ion channels, which produce the electrical signals in our cells. Can someone …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141046532 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141046538 |
| Author: | Frances Ashcroft |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 24 July 2013 |
| Weight: | 264g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 130mm x 22mm |
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This is a wonderful book. Frances Ashcroft has a rare gift for making difficult subjects accessible and fascinating
This is a wonderful book. Frances Ashcroft has a rare gift for making difficult subjects accessible and fascinating * Bill Bryson *
About The Author
Frances Ashcroft
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. Her scientific research focuses on how a rise in your blood sugar level stimulates the release of insulin and 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.
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