Non vengono da un altro pianeta e non nascono dal nulla. I responsabili della prossima pandemia sono già tra noi, sono virus che oggi colpiscono gli animali ma che potrebbero da un momento all'altro fare un salto di specie - uno spillover in gergo tecnico - e colpire anche gli e…
Spillover: l'evoluzione delle pandemie
by Quammen, David, Civalleri, Luigi
fromGli adelphi
Spillover: l'evoluzione delle pandemie
by Quammen, David, Civalleri, Luigi
fromGli adelphi
"Science writing as detective story at its best." Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific AmericanA New York Times NotableEbola, SARS, Hendra, AIDS, and countless other deadly viruses all have one thing in common: the bugs that transmit these diseases all originate in wild animals and pa…
Spillover: l'evoluzione delle pandemie
by Quammen, David, Civalleri, Luigi
fromGli adelphi
"Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life's history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature." -- Publisher annotation.
"In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out of this new field—the study of life’s diversity and relatedness at the molecular level—is horizontal gene transfer (HGT), or the movemen…
"In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out of this new field—the study of life’s diversity and relatedness at the molecular level—is horizontal gene transfer (HGT), or the movemen…
"In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out of this new field--the study of life's diversity and relatedness at the molecular level--is horizontal gene transfer (HGT), or the movem…
Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life's history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature
"In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out of this new field-the study of life's diversity and relatedness at the molecular level-is horizontal gene transfer (HGT), or the movemen…