The Spark of Life by Frances Ashcroft
From before birth to the last breath we draw, from consciousness to sexual attraction, fighting infection to the beating of our hearts, electricity is essential to everything we think and do. This title reveals the secrets of ion channels, which produce the electrical signals in our cells.
This is a wonderful bookFrances Ashcroft has a rare gift for making difficult subjects accessible and fascinating * Bill Bryson *
Frances Ashcroft is Professor of Physiology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Trinity College Oxford. She is also Director of OXION, a consortium of scientists studying ion channels, the heroes of this book. Her scientific research focuses on how a rise in your blood sugar level stimulates the release of insulin and what why this process goes wrong in diabetes. She has won many prizes for her research, most recently the L'Oreal/UNESCO 2012 Women in Science award. She is also a recipient of the Lewis Thomas Prize for Science Writing for The Spark of Life. Her first book for the general reader was Life at the Extremes: The Science of Survival.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141046532 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141046538 |
| Title | The Spark of Life |
| Author | Frances Ashcroft |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-05-02 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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