The Role of Phages in Early Molecular Genetics: History of an Emerging Discipline [Hardcover]

As antimicrobial resistance threatens global health, phages have reemerged as subjects of scientific inquiry.?The Role of Phages in Early Molecular Genetics: History of an Emerging Discipline bridges history, physics, and virology, offering a narrative of how these microscopic entities revolutionized our understanding of life itself.

Dr. Luigi Marongiu studied Molecular Biology at the University of Roma Tre, Italy, and obtained a PhD in Virology at the University College London, England. He studied viral infections at the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Heidelberg, and T?bingen. Currently, he is leading the Nutritional Virology Unit within the Department of Nutritional Biochemistry at the University of Hohenheim, Germany, where he is investigating the role of nutrition in altering the biology of bacteriophages and its effect on human health. He is the author of the manual Machine learning analysis of qPCR data using R.

In the shadow of global conflictsfrom World War II through the tensions of the Cold Waran extraordinary scientific revolution was quietly unfolding. A brilliant collective of geneticists and microbiologists, known as the Phage Group, harnessed the power of bacterial viruses to unlock the very structure of genes, giving birth to Molecular Biology as we know it today.

As antimicrobial resistance threatens global health, phages have reemerged as critical subjects of scientific inquiry, yet their pivotal role in the genetic discoveries of the 1940s1960s remains largely overlookeduntil now. The Role of Phages in Early Molecular Genetics: History of an Emerging Discipline bridges history, physics, and virology, offering both scientists and general readers a compelling narrative of how these microscopic entities revolutionized our understanding of life itself.