Lara Marks: 3 books

Book cover of Engineering Health

Engineering Health

How Biotechnology Changed Medicine

by Lara Marks, Richard Alldread, John Birch
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017

Biotechnology harnesses cellular and biochemical systems to advance knowledge of the molecular cause of disease and to provide new diagnostic tools and more precisely targeted drugs. Within a decade, global investment in medical biotechnology has increased more than ten-fold, resulting in therapies...
Book cover of The Lock and Key of Medicine

The Lock and Key of Medicine

Monoclonal Antibodies and the Transformation of Healthcare

by Lara V. Marks
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2015

This book is the first to tell the extraordinary yet unheralded history of monoclonal antibodies. Often referred to as Mabs, they are unfamiliar to most nonscientists, yet these microscopic protein molecules are everywhere, quietly shaping our lives and healthcare. Discovered in the mid-1970s in the...
Book cover of Sexual Chemistry: A History of the Contraceptive Pill
by Lara V. Marks
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010

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