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My third Carl Zimmer book in a week. It isn't an outstanding 10-star as She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity or a brilliant and illuminating (and gross) Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures, worth 5 stars. Instead it is a very short book about viruses and there really isn't much to say about viruses.
I did learn about phages and phage therapy as an alternative to antibiotics and how the Russians have pursued this the ...more
I did learn about phages and phage therapy as an alternative to antibiotics and how the Russians have pursued this the ...more
I'm reviewing this a few weeks after reading it and I can't seem to find it anywhere to refer to it. I rememver I was a tad disappointed because I finished still confused about a lot of definitional things. Think it was a good overview of the topic but left many questions unanswered and would have appreciated more detail.
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This book is a great introduction to viruses! That said, since it was part of my major in college, it didn't contain any new information for me. This is for all science buffs though, viruses are fascinating "creatures"!
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Interesting. Worth reading.
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