'Thrilling ... Reads like the best kind of adventure story' STEPHEN FRY
'Wonderful ... recounts in exceptionally clear and sympathetic prose how research into the immune system has resulted in a health revolution' HENRY MARSH, New Statesman
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE
A Best Book of the Year 2018 in The Times, Telegraph, New Scientist & Daily Mail
The immune system holds the key to human health. In The Beautiful Cure, leading immunologist Professor Daniel Davis describes the scientific quest to understand how it works - and how it is affected by stress, sleep, age and our state of mind - and explains how this knowledge is now unlocking a revolutionary new approach to medicine and well-being.
The body's ability to fight disease and heal itself is one of the great mysteries and marvels of nature. But within the last few years painstaking research has resulted in major advances in our understanding of this breathtakingly beautiful inner world- a vast and intricate network of specialist cells, regulatory proteins and dedicated genes that are continually protecting our bodies. Far more powerful than any medicine ever invented, it also plays a crucial role in our daily lives. Already we have found ways to harness these natural defences to create breakthrough drugs and so-called immunotherapies that help us fight cancer, diabetes, arthritis and many age-related diseases, and we are starting to understand whether or not activities such as mindfulness might play a role in enhancing our physical resilience.
Written by an expert at the forefront of this adventure, The Beautiful Cure tells a dramatic story of detective work and discovery, of puzzles solved and of the mysteries that remain, of lives sacrificed and saved, introducing the reader to this revelatory new understanding of the human body and what it takes to be healthy.
'Thrilling ... Reads like the best kind of adventure story' STEPHEN FRY
'Wonderful ... recounts in exceptionally clear and sympathetic prose how research into the immune system has resulted in a health revolution' HENRY MARSH, New Statesman
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE
A Best Book of the Year 2018 in The Times, Telegraph, New Scientist & Daily Mail
The immune system holds the key to human health. In The Beautiful Cure, leading immunologist Professor Daniel Davis describes the scientific quest to understand how it works - and how it is affected by stress, sleep, age and our state of mind - and explains how this knowledge is now unlocking a revolutionary new approach to medicine and well-being.
The body's ability to fight disease and heal itself is one of the great mysteries and marvels of nature. But within the last few years painstaking research has resulted in major advances in our understanding of this breathtakingly beautiful inner world- a vast and intricate network of specialist cells, regulatory proteins and dedicated genes that are continually protecting our bodies. Far more powerful than any medicine ever invented, it also plays a crucial role in our daily lives. Already we have found ways to harness these natural defences to create breakthrough drugs and so-called immunotherapies that help us fight cancer, diabetes, arthritis and many age-related diseases, and we are starting to understand whether or not activities such as mindfulness might play a role in enhancing our physical resilience.
Written by an expert at the forefront of this adventure, The Beautiful Cure tells a dramatic story of detective work and discovery, of puzzles solved and of the mysteries that remain, of lives sacrificed and saved, introducing the reader to this revelatory new understanding of the human body and what it takes to be healthy.
A leading expert introduces the revolutionary new science of the immune system with its break-through medical cures and discusses how stress, sleep and ageing affect our health.
Daniel M. Davis is Professor of Immunology at the University of Manchester. His research, using super-resolution microscopy to study immune cell biology, was listed in Discover magazine as one of the top 100 breakthroughs of the year. His previous book, The Compatibility Gene, was longlisted for the 2014 Royal Society Winton Science Book Prize, shortlisted for the Society of Biology Book Prize and described by Bill Bryson in the Guardian's Books of the Year as 'elegantly written and unexpectedly gripping'. He is also the author of over 120 academic papers, collectively cited over 10,000 times, including articles in Nature, Science and Scientific American.
Thrilling ... An eye-opening tour de force of scientific writing
that reads like the best kind of adventure story
*Stephen Fry*
One of the best accounts I have yet come across of the nature of
biological science … Daniel Davis’s wonderful book recounts in
exceptionally clear and sympathetic prose how research into the
immune system has resulted in a health revolution
*New Statesman*
Thoroughly absorbing ... Davis is a wonderful storyteller
*Bill Bryson*
Terrific ... Davis relates the extraordinary modern developments in
supercharging the body’s own immune system to fight disease, and
one day maybe even eliminate cancer
******Telegraph*
Thrilling … Do not underestimate the importance of immunology. This
field relates to you personally
*Guardian*
An inspirational book that not only reveals the secret joys of
scientific discovery but is jam-packed full of revelations for
non-scientists
*Mail on Sunday*
Forget AI, robotics, the internet of things. This is where the
future feels strange and exciting: in the 'inner universe' of our
immune system, and in the radically new therapies that are using it
to conquer disease
*Sunday Times*
Highly readable, beautifully researched, backed up with notes,
references and interviews by Davis himself, whose status as an
immunology professor confers added credibility. He believes that we
now know enough about the major components and interactions of the
immune system to begin manipulating them to cure diseases such as
cancer. We stand, he predicts, on the threshold of a medical
revolution
*New Scientist*
A sweeping tour d’horizon … lucid and entertaining … Much as
Siddhartha Mukherjee did in his book The Gene, Davis expertly
weaves together human stories and scientific endeavour
*The Times*
New ways to treat cancer, diabetes, arthritis and other age-related
diseases … Davis is a sure and engaging guide to these
developments
*Observer*
A terrific book by a consummate storyteller and scientific
expert
*Guardian*
Gives extraordinary new details of an ancient remedy that is
already more marvellous, powerful and flexible than any medicine to
come out of a lab
*Roger Highfield*
The human body is the most complicated assemblage of chemicals in
the known universe. It's a huge scientific challenge to understand
how we metabolise, how we acquire immunity, and how drugs work.
Daniel Davis is a distinguished expert in this field – and he's a
fine writer too. He portrays vividly how great discoveries emerge –
via prolonged effort, via cooperation and competition, and sometime
sheer luck. This gripping book gives an authentic flavour of how
science is actually done – and why it's important for humanity's
future
*Martin Rees*
This book is an insight into new, remarkable and almost unnoticed
advances in immunology and shows how medicine is moving on from the
world of the gene to the world of the antibody
*Steve Jones*
Any reader completely unfamiliar with the workings of the immune
system is likely to be dumbstruck with admiration for its intricacy
... Davis's book is full of enlivening little anecdotes
*Literary Review*
[The Beautiful Cure] offers fresh perspectives on future research
strategies
*Science*
Superb
*Daily Telegraph*
We all think we know how the immune system works, roughly. This
exciting and elegant book on new discoveries shows how wrong we
were
*Daily Telegraph*
An excellent book on our immune system. His lucid prose lets the
science speak for itself, and it beautifully illuminates one of the
most exciting frontiers of modern medicine
*Science Focus*
Engaging and lucid... [There is] a compelling human story of the
researchers who made the discoveries. The author has gone to great
lengths to interview the key players in the story
*The Biologist*
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