Sue Armstrong: 4 books

A Matter of Life and Death tells fascinating stories of mysterious illnesses and miraculous scientific breakthroughs. But it is also crammed full of extraordinary characters – from the forensic anthropologist with his own Body Farm in Tennessee to the doctor who had a heart-and-lung transplant and ended up using her own lungs for research.

All of us have lurking in our DNA a most remarkable gene, which has a crucial job – it protects us from cancer. Known simply as p53, this gene constantly scans our cells to ensure that they grow and divide without mishap, as part of the routine maintenance of our bodies. If a cell makes a mistake...

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Todos tenemos oculto en nuestro ADN un extraordinario gen que tiene un trabajo clave: protegernos del cáncer. Conocido como p53, este gen revisa continuamente nuestras células, como parte del mantenimiento de rutina de nuestro cuerpo, para asegurarse de que crezcan y se dividan sin contratiempos. Si...