Full Description
You Under the Microscope explores the unseen and unusual microscopic processes happening around us—and on us, and inside us!—every day.
Fun, colorful, and ingeniously illustrated, this book highlights the far out and fabulous things happening under, on, and occasionally up our noses. Ooh and ahh at the infographics exploring tiny creatures living on our faces, the trillions of bacteria and viruses within our bodies, the genes we've never seen but (literally) couldn't live without, and even medical marvels like 3D-printed organs.
With dozens of novel and fascinating scientific tidbits presented in a familiar setting—you!—this book is for anyone interested in learning more about human biology, microbes, genetics, cutting-edge medicine or simply seeing the everyday a little bit differently.
Contents
Introduction 1. Germs Get Under (and On) Your Skin 2. Germopolis 3. Many More Microbiomes 4. It Takes Guts to Be This Germy 5. Balancing Your Gut Bacteria Like a Pro (or a Pre!) 6. Bring Back My Biome to Me 7. Let's Have Some Fun(gi) 8. Mite You Spare a Follicle? 9. Ah-CHOO! It's Dust Mitey in Here 10. Beds, Bugs and Beyond 11. Incredibly Crafty Critters 12. I Spy, Inside My Little Eye... 13. Microbes to the Rescue! 14. We All Go Viral 15. If You Can't Beat 'Em, Swallow 'Em Whole 16. Put Away That DNA! 17. Family Reunions are Bananas (Literally) 18. Too Much of a Good Gene? 19. Hox Rocks! 20. Balanced on the Hedge 21. Telo Me Your Life Story 22. Just Here to Interfere 23. When Your Honker is Honking 24. Ugh, Brain Freeze! 25. Nerves Made for Speed 26. Human See, Human Do 27. The Thinker is a Shrinker 28. You Stem from Stem Cells 29. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle 30. A Nifty Trip from Crypt to Tip 31. Human Print Queue 32. Endo? Exo? Who Crine Figure this Out? 33. Keep the Beat 34. Peculiar Platelets 35. Lymph is No Wimp 36. Call In the (Immuno) Cavalry 37. Fight Back with a Vac(cine) 38. What Do You Want, or What Do You Needle? 39. "Big Eaters", Big Appetites 40. Eye Need Some Lasers Bibliography About the Authors
