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Science Is Beautiful: Disease and Medicine Under the Microscope

Author: Colin Salter.

Science Is Beautiful: Disease and Medicine Under the Microscope

Author: Colin Salter.

$35.00 $7.98
Item #: D13945
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2017
Publisher: Batsford
ISBN: 9781849944410
To be sure, you don't want to get polio or Ebola, but viewed objectively under a powerful microscope, they possess an otherworldly beauty. Accompanied by informative captions, these colorful images highlight the surprising structure of Staphylococcus bacteria and dental plaque, while other photographs reveal what human cells look like when suffering from Alz... More
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To be sure, you don't want to get polio or Ebola, but viewed objectively under a powerful microscope, they possess an otherworldly beauty. Accompanied by informative captions, these colorful images highlight the surprising structure of Staphylococcus bacteria and dental plaque, while other photographs reveal what human cells look like when suffering from Alzheimer's, osteoporosis, or HIV. Rather than being white, cocaine looks like prismatic shards, while deadly nightshade is a lovely shade of gold. Here too are dazzling images of the medicines that we take, including magnified views of aspirin, insulin, morphine, caffeine, and Viagra—which could be mistaken for rainbow-tinted icebergs.


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