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Breath from salt : a deadly genetic disease, a new era in science, and the patients and families who changed medicine forever / Bijal P. Trivedi.
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- ISBN: 9781948836371
- ISBN: 1948836378
- Physical Description: xviii, 558 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Dallas, TX : BenBella Books, Inc., [2020]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-540) and index. |
| Summary, etc.: | "Science writer Bijal P. Trivedi gives a comprehensive look at cystic fibrosis, from its late 1930s discovery to the recent development of breakthrough treatments for 90% of patients, and the way treatments for the previously fatal disease are opening the door for curing other life-threatening conditions"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Subject: | Cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis > Treatment. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main | 616.372 T739b (Text) | 31307024441414 | Non Fiction | Available | - |
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Author Notes
Breath from Salt : A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
Bijal P. Trivedi is an award-winning freelance writer specializing in medicine and health. Her work has taken her from the hidden vaults of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Serengeti Plains to Moscow's Star City, where she blasted off with space tourism entrepreneurs on the "Vomit Comet" for astronaut training. Her work has appeared in Discover, Scientific American, New Scientist, Wired, The Economist, National Geographic, Science, Self, Nature, among others. Her feature " The Wipeout Gene" was anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing: 2012 . Trivedi is the former editor of the NIH Director's Blog, which shares compelling, cutting edge biomedical research with the general public. Trivedi also worked as a writer and editor for the National Geographic News Service, a wire service she helped launch in partnership with the New York Times Syndicate.
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