📗 Libro en inglés THE GOOD VIRUS

p b CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY WATERSTONES AND i THE TIMES i b br br b Superb This is luxury class science writing br i DAILY TELEGRAPH i 5 review br br One of the best books of i any i genre that I ve read in 2023 this superbly written book will fascinate absolutely everyone br i FORBES i br br A delight To learn more about phages is to discover fascinating details about a hidden world br i NATURE i br b br b b br br b Not all viruses are out to get us in fact the viruses that do us harm are vastly outnumbered by viruses that can actually save lives b br br At every moment within your body and all around you trillions of microscopic combatants are fighting an invisible war Countless times per second good viruses known as phages are infecting and destroying bacteria These phages are the most abundant life form on the planet and have an incredible power to heal rather than harm So why have most of us never even heard of them br br i The Good Virus i reveals how personalities power and politics have repeatedly crashed together to hinder our understanding of these weird and wonderful life forms We explore why Stalin s Soviet Union embraced using phages to fight disease but the rest