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Imagine knowing years in advance whether you are likely to get cancer or having a personalized understanding of your individual genes, organs, and cells. Imagine being able to monitor your body's well-being, or have a diet tailored to your microbiome. The Secret Body reveals how these and other stunning breakthroughs and technologies are transforming our understanding of how the human body works, what it is capable of, how to protect it from disease, and how we might manipulate it in the future.Taking readers to the cutting edge of research, Daniel Davis shows how radical new possibilities are becoming realities thanks to the visionary efforts of scientists who are revealing the invisible and secret universe within each of us. Focusing on six important frontiers, Davis describes what we are learning about cells, the development of the fetus, the body's immune system, the brain, the microbiome, and the genome -- areas of human biology that are usually understood in isolation.
About the Author
Daniel has had a lifelong obsession with robots, monsters, and mythology. He's has been drawing upon these roots his entire life, and while his mother always hoped that he'd illustrate friendly wildlife, he focused on scrawling beasts and monsters of all sorts.Daniel writes and illustrates most everything for Steam Crow, from books to the Monster Commute webcomic, though he collaborates a great deal with this wife Dawna, to get everything just right.He enjoys running Steam Crow (more than eating), watching samurai movies, reading comics and "books", tricking computers, exploring the interwebnets, and playing with the goblin-boy Kaid. He is also the founder of TINY ARMY, an informal Arizona illustration society.Daniel claims to have been abducted by monsters on more than 343 occasions; please just smile and nod.He lives in Phoenix, Arizona with fond memories of Autumn and Winter.
