We are electric
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Award-winning science and technology journalist Sally Adee reveals the new science of our body's electrome
A BEST BOOK OF 2023 FOR THE TELEGRAPH, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW SCIENTIST AND STYLIST
A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST READ 2023
You may be familiar with the idea of our body's biome - the bacterial fauna that populates our gut and can so profoundly affect our health. In We Are Electric we cross the next frontier of scientific understanding: discover your body's electrome.
Every cell in our bodies - bones, skin, nerves, muscle - has a voltage, like a tiny battery. This bioelectricity is why our brains can send signals to our bodies, why we develop the way we do in the womb and how our bodies know to heal themselves from injury. When bioelectricity goes awry, illness, deformity and cancer can result. But if we can control or correct this bioelectricity, the implications for our health are remarkable: an undo switch for cancer that could flip malignant cells back into healthy ones; the ability to regenerate cells, organs, even limbs; to slow ageing and so much more.
In We Are Electric, award-winning science writer Sally Adee explores the history of bioelectricity: from Galvani's epic eighteenth-century battle with the inventor of the battery, Alessandro Volta, to the medical charlatans claiming to use electricity to cure pretty much anything, to advances in the field helped along by the unusually massive axons of squid. And finally, she journeys into the future of the discipline, through today's laboratories where we are starting to see real-world medical applications being developed.
The bioelectric revolution starts here.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 februari 2023
Aantal pagina's: 352
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Sally Adee
Hoofduitgeverij: Canongate Books
Originele titel: We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body's Electrome
AI-gegenereerd: Nee
Editie: Main
Product breedte: 162 mm
Product hoogte: 33 mm
Product lengte: 240 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 162 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 33 mm
Verpakking lengte: 240 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 573 g
eWaste: Nee
EAN: 9781838853327