Biological Sciences

Clean: The New Science of Skin

A preventative medicine physician and staff writer for The Atlantic explains the surprising and unintended effects of our hygiene practices in this informative and entertaining introduction to the new science of skin microbes and probiotics. […Learn More]

Biological Sciences

The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir

A “fascinating and terrifying” memoir of one woman’s extraordinary effort to save her husband’s life (Scientific American) — and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the potential to save millions more.

Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist Tom Patterson, were vacationing in Egypt when Tom came down with a stomach bug. What at first seemed like a case of food poisoning quickly turned critical, and by […Learn More]