Who Are We? Microbes the Puppet Masters!

List of contents

Why Do You Get a Kick Out of Roller Coaster Ride and Bungee Jump?; Looking into the Cells: How Human Are We?; Looking into the Command Post of Human Cells, The Nucleus: Are We Human at All?; Why Is There So Much Junk in Our Genes?; The Tendency of Humans to Trade Off Our Body Functions under the Assault of Disease-Causing Microbes; Looking into Our Intestines; Why Do We Have Diarrhea?; We Eat Because We Need the Food; Microbes Help Those Who Help Themselves; We Are Fat Because We Eat Too Much and Exercise Too Little; Our Indecent Liaison with Yeast; Who Is the Father of Democracy?; The Pseudo-Tyrants; HIV Didn't Learn from Smallpox; Why Are Some Pathogens More Willing to Kill the Hosts than Others?; SARS Virus, the New Kid on the Block; Who Is Afraid of Bird Flu?; Why Do Microbes Want to Colonize Human Body?; Ability to Love Makes Humans Different from Lower Forms of Organisms; Microbes Kill for Their Children!; Does Your Blood Type Determine Your Fortune?; A Human Body without Microbes?.

Product details

• Authors: Lee Yuan Kun, Yuan Kun Lee
• Publisher: World Scientific
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 221 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 204 g
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries