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Bacteria
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
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While cells are commonly considered the building block of living things, it is actually the communication between cells that brings us to life, controlling our bodies and brains, determining whether we are healthy or sick, and directly influencing how we think, feel, and behave. In The Secret Language of Cells, doctor and neuroscientist Jon Lieff lets us listen in on these conversations, and reveals their significance for everything from mental health to cancer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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top notch!
- De Amazon Customer en 10-11-20
De: Jon Lieff MD
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The Truth About Cancer
- De: Ty M. Bollinger
- Narrado por: Ty M. Bollinger
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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One out of three women alive today, and one out of two men, will face a cancer diagnosis, according to the World Health Organization. Ty Bollinger takes this personally: in the course of a decade, he says, "I lost my entire family to cancer. I don't believe I had to lose them." The Truth about Cancer has been written for one simple reason: to share the knowledge we need to protect ourselves, treat ourselves, and in some cases save our lives or the lives of those we love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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save a life with this valuable information.
- De edwin matias en 12-30-16
De: Ty M. Bollinger
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Viruses, Plagues, and History
- Past, Present, and Future
- De: Michael B. A. Oldstone
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity, focusing mostly on the most famous viruses. For this revised edition, Oldstone includes discussions of new viruses like SARS, bird flu, virally caused cancers, chronic wasting disease, and West Nile. Viruses, Plagues, and History paints a sweeping portrait of humanity's long-standing conflict with our unseen viral enemies.
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4 out of 5 stars
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very detailed, but very statistical
- De ekhensel15 en 01-12-19
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Radiation
- What It Is, What You Need to Know
- De: Robert Peter Gale, Eric Lax
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
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The essential guide to radiation: the good, the bad, and the utterly fascinating, explained with unprecedented clarity. Earth, born in a nuclear explosion, is a radioactive planet; without radiation, life would not exist. And while radiation can be dangerous, it is also deeply misunderstood and often mistakenly feared. Now Robert Peter Gale, M.D. - the doctor to whom concerned governments turned in the wake of the Chernobyl and Fukushima - in collaboration with medical writer Eric Lax draws on an exceptional depth of knowledge to correct myths and establish facts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great and accessible introduction to the field o
- De Neuron en 04-12-13
De: Robert Peter Gale, y otros
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Napoleon's Buttons
- 17 Molecules That Changed History
- De: Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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Napoleon's Buttons is the fascinating account of 17 groups of molecules that have greatly influenced the course of history. These molecules provided the impetus for early exploration, and made possible the voyages of discovery that ensued. The molecules resulted in grand feats of engineering and spurred advances in medicine and law; they determined what we now eat, drink, and wear. A change as small as the position of an atom can lead to enormous alterations in the properties of a substance.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wish one of the authors would have read this book
- De A.J. en 03-09-12
De: Penny Le Couteur, y otros
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Happy Accidents
- Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century
- De: Morton A. Meyers
- Narrado por: Richard Waterhouse
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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Happy Accidents is a fascinating, entertaining, and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the 20th century. What do penicillin, chemotherapy drugs, X-rays, Valium, the Pap smear, and Viagra have in common? They were each discovered accidentally, stumbled upon in the search for something else. In discussing medical breakthroughs, Dr. Morton Meyers makes a cogent, highly engaging argument for a more creative, rather than purely linear, approach to science. And it may just save our lives!
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't waste your money!
- De Amazon Customer en 03-20-16
De: Morton A. Meyers
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A Crack in Creation
- Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
- De: Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,347
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Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use. Not, that is, until the spring of 2015, when biologist Jennifer Doudna called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of the new gene-editing tool CRISPR - a revolutionary new technology that she helped create - to make heritable changes in human embryos.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In to the abyss we ascend, a scary future
- De Philomath en 06-17-17
De: Jennifer A. Doudna, y otros
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Human Errors
- A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
- De: Nathan H. Lents
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution's greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often - 200 times more often than a dog does? How come our wrists have so many useless bones? And are we really supposed to swallow and breathe through the same narrow tube? Surely there's been some kind of mistake. As professor of biology Nathan H. Lents explains in Human Errors, our evolutionary history is nothing if not a litany of mistakes, each more entertaining and enlightening than the last.
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4 out of 5 stars
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From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes to...Aliens?
- De Katy.LED en 12-04-18
De: Nathan H. Lents
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10% Human
- How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
- De: Alanna Collen
- Narrado por: Cat Gould
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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You are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body, there are nine impostor cells hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but also bacteria and fungi. Over your lifetime, you will carry the equivalent weight of five African elephants in microbes. You are not an individual but a colony. Until recently, we had thought our microbes hardly mattered, but science is revealing a different story, one in which microbes run our bodies and becoming a healthy human is impossible without them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must read for anyone that wants to be healthy
- De T. Kalinowski en 06-05-21
De: Alanna Collen
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Life Unfolding
- How the Human Body Creates Itself
- De: Jamie A. Davies
- Narrado por: Napoleon Ryan
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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Where did I come from? Why do I have two arms but just one head? How is my left leg the same size as my right one? Why are the fingerprints of identical twins not identical? How did my brain learn to learn? Why must I die? Questions like these remain biology's deepest and most ancient challenges. They force us to confront a fundamental biological problem: How can something as large and complex as a human body organize itself from the simplicity of a fertilized egg?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Biology ; Distracting Narration
- De Tim en 03-01-15
De: Jamie A. Davies
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Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox
- How a Little-Known Vitamin Could Save Your Life
- De: Kate Rhéaume-Bleue BSc ND
- Narrado por: Virginia Wolf
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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Are you taking calcium or vitamin D? This book could save your life! Learn the secret to avoiding osteoporosis and heart disease. Millions of people take calcium and Vitamin D supplements thinking they're helping their bones. The truth is, without the addition of Vitamin K2, such a health regimen could prove dangerous. Without Vitamin K2, the body cannot direct calcium to the bones where it's needed; instead, the calcium resides in soft tissue, like the arteries, leading to a combination of osteoporosis and atherosclerosis, or the dreaded "calcium paradox".
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5 out of 5 stars
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I CANNOT APPLAUD THIS BOOK ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!
- De @THEROOTMATTERS en 03-22-19
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Evolving Ourselves
- How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth
- De: Juan Enriquez, Steve Gullans
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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Why are conditions like autism, asthma, obesity, and allergies exploding at unprecedented rates? Why are we living longer, getting smarter, having far fewer kids? If Darwin were alive today, how would he explain this new world?
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5 out of 5 stars
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fascinating ideas and science
- De Joel en 07-04-15
De: Juan Enriquez, y otros
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The Fat Switch
- De: Richard J. Johnson MD
- Narrado por: Brian Holsopple
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 106
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If you've ever struggled with losing weight and keeping it off, I don't have to tell you it's a challenge. You already know. What if losing weight could be as easy as flipping a switch? I know that sounds incredible. But now there's an abundance of research telling us that may be possible. In his new book, The Fat Switch, Dr. Richard J. Johnson, presents news-breaking, science-based studies that will reverse current thinking on both the cause and treatment of obesity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Want to understand weight gain?
- De Programming Dragon en 02-01-16
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The Deeper Genome
- Why There Is More to the Human Genome than Meets the Eye
- De: John Parrington
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 9 h
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 106
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 92
Over a decade ago, as the Human Genome Project completed its mapping of the entire human genome, hopes ran high that we would rapidly be able to use our knowledge of human genes to tackle many inherited diseases, and understand what makes us unique among animals. But things didn't turn out that way.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great Scientific Writing/ Wrong Narrator
- De Richard en 11-24-15
De: John Parrington
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The Language of Life
- DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine
- De: Francis S. Collins
- Narrado por: Greg Itzin
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 148
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A scientific and medical revolution has crept up on us, based on study after study, from hundreds of laboratories around the world. It is no longer just a theoretical shift: every one of us will be touched by it, and many of us already have been. The meaning of disease, our understanding of the human body, and crucial decisions about what we all need to know and what choices we make about our health are at stake. Welcome to the new world of personalized medicine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The future of medicine
- De Ronald E en 04-12-10
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Bacteria
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- Kim
- 08-31-22
well done
As a retired fisheries biologist, I found it a great review-update to microbiology. Might be a bit of a slog for people unfamiliar with biology.
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