To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before

If science and medicine were a theme park, Luke O’Neill is the best company on the wildest rides … serious and fun … expansive and detailed … a disruptive professor in his own class – Bono
Luke’s brilliant wit and infectious passion makes for a fascinating and hugely entertaining read…a timely reminder of just why science and the scientists who have shaped our lives matter – Liz Bonnin
A lively, gossipy, story-filled delight, filled with fascinating factoids * Sunday Independent *
Even the scientifically illiterate, like myself, could get it and have a whole new understanding of all kinds of things * Brendan O’Connor *
If science and medicine were a theme park, Luke O’Neill is the best company on the wildest rides … serious and fun … expansive and detailed … a disruptive professor in his own class – Bono
Luke’s brilliant wit and infectious passion makes for a fascinating and hugely entertaining read…a timely reminder of just why science and the scientists who have shaped our lives matter – Liz Bonnin
A lively, gossipy, story-filled delight, filled with fascinating factoids * Sunday Independent *
Even the scientifically illiterate, like myself, could get it and have a whole new understanding of all kinds of things * Brendan O’Connor *

Luke O’Neill is a world-renowned scientist, author and educator, and Professor of Biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin. He has published over 350 major papers and has 6 major discoveries to his name, including a protein called Mal, which is a master switch for immunity. In 2016, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society. Luke appears regularly on television and radio, has a weekly column in Ireland’s number one Sunday newspaper, the Irish Independent, and in 2021 was the Chair of judges for the Royal Society Science Book Prize.

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