The COVID-19 pandemic that swept the planet in the early 2020s
killed more than six million, delivered unimaginable human
suffering and $22 trillion in lost global growth. We weren't
prepared and should have been.Unraveling the secrets of microbes,
an invisible parallel universe of tiny life forms all around us, is
central to managing the big twenty-first-century challenges of
pandemics, bioterrorism, food security and climate change.
Scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs and political leaders are
racing to decode this biological realm with powerful new tools to
extend human lifespans and make the world safer and more
prosperous. Yet such technologies need to be handled with care. The
price of getting this wrong will be unbearable.Man Versus Microbe
is about humanity's competitive, symbiotic and precarious
relationship with the microbial world. Brian Bremner (Senior
Executive Editor, Bloomberg) offers a book on the exhilarating
fields of synthetic biology and genetics, abundant with material on
emerging technologies to deepen one's understanding of how virus
hunters chase bugs or how geneticists unlock the workings of a
microbe's constituent DNA. This book is for readers who want to
learn more about humanity's fight to contain future pandemics and
better understand the risks and opportunities of living in the
world of microbes. After navigating through a disruptive pandemic,
we are all amateur epidemiologists now.
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