Who are We?

Download or read book Who are We? written by Yuan Kun Lee and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Why do you get a kick out of roller coaster rides and bungee jumps? -- 2. Looking into the cells : how human are we? -- 3. Looking into the command post of human cells : the nucleus, are we human at all? -- 4. Why is there so much junk in our genes? -- 5. The tendency of humans to trade-off our body functions under the assault of disease-causing microbes -- 6. Looking into our intestines -- 7. Why do we have diarrhoea? -- 8. Do we eat because we need the food? -- 9. Microbes help those who help themselves -- 10. Are we fat because we eat too much and exercise too little? -- 11. Our indecent liaison with yeast -- 12. Who is the father of democracy? -- 13. The pseudo-tyrants -- 14. Did HIV learn from smallpox? -- 15. Why are some pathogens more willing to kill the hosts than others? -- 16. SARS virus, the new kid on the block -- 17. Who is afraid of bird flu? -- 18. Why do microbes want to colonize the human body? -- 19. Does the ability to love make humans different from lower forms of organisms? -- 20. Microbes kill for their offspring! -- 21. Does your blood type determine your fortune? -- 22. A human body without microbes?