Genomics and Personalised Medicine
The author is a professor of genetics at Stanford, and used his own gene sequence to predict and help diagnose a metabolic disorder in 2012.…… Read More »
Category: Science
Science for Life
Subtitled 'a manual for better living', this handbook consists of a large number of short entries, many cross-referenced, under the overall headings of diet, exercise,…… Read More »
I, Superorganism
Many advances in science arise from a newly realised complexity in the functioning of living systems. This applies to this very good popular account of…… Read More »
Black Holes - a Very Short Introduction
This book describes not only the physics underlying the phenomenon of black holes, but also the history of thinking about these issues that led to…… Read More »
Origins
Subtitled 'the scientific story of creation', this book is a real tour de force covering origins since the beginning of the universe, namely of space,…… Read More »
Moonstruck
The author comes from a background of marine zoology and has taken an interest not only in circadian rhythms and chronobiology but now also in…… Read More »
A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO COLOUR APPEARANCE AROUND THE EARTH
This book explores the captivating colours that appear in the atmosphere of the earth: coronas, glories, halos, rainbows, dawn and dusk. It invites the reader…… Read More »
NEANDERTHAL MAN: IN SEARCH OF LOST GENOMES
It seems that the Scientific and Medical Network publishes a lot of spiritual commentary and not so much pertaining to mainstream scientific analysis. Much as…… Read More »
The Fourth Phase of Water
In The Fourth Phase of Water, Gerald Pollack offers an elegant new theory of water chemistry that has profound implications not only for chemistry and…… Read More »
IN THE EYE OF THE STORM
As one of the world's leading climate scientists, the publication of Sir John Houghton's autobiography at this time is a very significant event, especially given…… Read More »