The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost--And Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail -- Lina Zeldovich, Hardcover
A remarkable story of the scientists behind a long-forgotten and life-saving cure: the healing viruses that can conquer antibiotic resistant bacterial infections
First discovered in 1917, bacteriophages--or "phages"--are living medicines: viruses that devour bacteria. Ubiquitous in the environment, they are found in water, soil, inside plants and animals, and in the human body.
Author: Lina Zeldovich
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 10/22/2024
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781250283382
About the Author
Lina Zeldovich grew up in a dissident family of Soviet scientists and learned English as a second language in her twenties, as an immigrant New Yorker. Now an award-winning journalist, author, speaker, and Columbia Journalism School alumna, she has contributed hundreds of stories for leading publications including Popular Science Magazine, The New York Times, Reader's Digest, Scientific American, Smithsonian, National Geographic, and BBC, and appeared on radio, podcasts and TV. Zeldovich is the author of The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health. She lives in New York City.
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