Bremner Brian (Bloomberg L. P.)
Bremner Brian (Bloomberg L. P.) - Man Versus Microbe: What Will It Take To Win? - Paperback
Bremner Brian (Bloomberg L. P.) - Man Versus Microbe: What Will It Take To Win? - Paperback
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Description: The Covid - 19 pandemic that swept the planet in the early 2020s killed more than six million delivered unimaginable human suffering and $22 trillion in lost global growth. We weren't prepared and should have been. Unraveling the secrets of microbes an invisible parallel universe of tiny life forms all around us is central to managing the big twenty - first - century challenges of pandemics bioterrorism food security and climate change. Scientists technologists entrepreneurs and political leaders are racing to decode this biological realm with powerful new tools to extend human lifespans and make the world safer and more prosperous. Yet such technologies need to be handled with care. The price of getting this wrong will be unbearable. Man Versus Microbe is about humanity's competitive symbiotic and precarious relationship with the microbial world. Brian Bremner (Senior Executive Editor Bloomberg) offers a book on the exhilarating fields of synthetic biology and genetics abundant with material on emerging technologies to deepen one's understanding of how virus hunters chase bugs or how geneticists unlock the workings of a microbe's constituent DN a. This book is for readers who want to learn more about humanity's fight to contain future pandemics and better understand the risks and opportunities of living in the world of microbes. After navigating through a disruptive pandemic we are all amateur epidemiologists now.
Title: Man Versus Microbe: What Will It Take To Win?
Author(s): Bremner Brian (Bloomberg L. P.)
Publisher: World Scientific Europe Ltd
Barcode: 9781800611207
Pages: 324 Pages
Publication Date: 5/4/2022
Category: Popular Science
Description: The Covid - 19 pandemic that swept the planet in the early 2020s killed more than six million delivered unimaginable human suffering and $22 trillion in lost global growth. We weren't prepared and should have been. Unraveling the secrets of microbes an invisible parallel universe of tiny life forms all around us is central to managing the big twenty - first - century challenges of pandemics bioterrorism food security and climate change. Scientists technologists entrepreneurs and political leaders are racing to decode this biological realm with powerful new tools to extend human lifespans and make the world safer and more prosperous. Yet such technologies need to be handled with care. The price of getting this wrong will be unbearable. Man Versus Microbe is about humanity's competitive symbiotic and precarious relationship with the microbial world. Brian Bremner (Senior Executive Editor Bloomberg) offers a book on the exhilarating fields of synthetic biology and genetics abundant with material on emerging technologies to deepen one's understanding of how virus hunters chase bugs or how geneticists unlock the workings of a microbe's constituent DN a. This book is for readers who want to learn more about humanity's fight to contain future pandemics and better understand the risks and opportunities of living in the world of microbes. After navigating through a disruptive pandemic we are all amateur epidemiologists now.
Title: Man Versus Microbe: What Will It Take To Win?
Author(s): Bremner Brian (Bloomberg L. P.)
Publisher: World Scientific Europe Ltd
Barcode: 9781800611207
Pages: 324 Pages
Publication Date: 5/4/2022
Category: Popular Science
