Cheryl Pellerin
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
"TRIPS has the latest findings in language anyone can understand, with help from some of the underground artists who grew up with psychedelics, regulators who control the drugs, federal scientists who approve and fund research, and scientists who've spent careers studying them. TRIPS is real neuroscience for a general audience, enthusiastically presented with color illustrations and bleeding-edge cultural analogies to show how the still-mysterious...
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
The smallest, simplest forms of life on earth, viruses are also the most tenacious and, many scientists believe, the oldest. This classic program explores the history of research into viruses and the ongoing struggle to combat them. Numerous experts offer commentary, including Stephen Morse, virologist at Rockefeller University, and Jonas Salk, famous creator fo the polio vaccine. This program looks at differences between DNA and RNA viruses, like...