How to avoid disease, how to breed successfully and how to
live to a reasonable age, are questions that have perplexed mankind
throughout history. This book explores our progress in
understanding these challenges, and the risks and rewards of our
attempts to find solutions. From the moment of conception,
nutrition and exposure to microbes or alien chemicals have
consequences that are etched into our cells and genomes. Such
events have a crucial impact on development in utero and in
child
目錄:
Preface;
1. Challenge, risk and reward: learning to control our biological
fate;
2. Learning to breed successfully;
3. How life is handled;
4. Cells in sickness and health;
5. Experiences in utero affect later life;
6. Infection, nutrition and poisons: avoiding an unhealthy
life;
7. Signs of ageing: when renovation slows;
8. Cancer and the body plan: a Darwinian struggle;
9. Fighting infection;
10. Are devastating epidemics still possible?;
11. Discovering medicines: infinite variety through
chemistry;
12. Protein medicines from gene technology;
13. Refurbishing the body;
14. Living with the genetic legacy;
15. Epilogue.