A virologist’s insight into how viruses evolve and why global epidemics are inevitableIn 1993 a previously healthy young man was drowning in the middle of a desert, in fluids produced by his own lungs
A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all othe
How could a relatively simple chemical code give rise to the complexity of a human being? How could our human genome have evolved? And how does it actually work? Over the past 50 years we have deciphe