Biologen 03

Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside

Autor: Katrina Firlik

The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix

Autor: Howard Markel

A Taste for Poison: Eleven deadly substances and the killers who used them

Autor: Neil Bradbury

The Genius of Birds

Autor: Jennifer Ackerman

Naturwissenschaftler reden von Gott

Herausgeber: Barbara Drossel
Mitwirkende: Jonathan Sleeman, Peter C. Hägele, Monika Schönhoff, Siegfried Scherer, Barbara Drossel

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

Autor: Janine M Benyus

Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey

Autor: Bud Shaw

The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us

Autor: Meg Lowman

The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars: A Neuropsychologist's Odyssey Through Consciousness

Paul Broks

Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory

James T. Costa

Alfred Russel Wallace

Peter Raby

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as He La. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells, taken without her knowledge, became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first immortal human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than 60 years.

If you could pile all He La cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million metric tons - as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings.

He La cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bombs effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.

Now, Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the colored ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of He La cells; from Henriettas small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia, a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo, to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.

Henrietta's family did not learn of her immortality until more than 20 years after her death, when scientists investigating He La began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family, past and present, is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.

Charles Darwin: Voyaging: Volume 1 of a biography

Janet Browne

The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science

Andrea Wulf

Winner of the Costa Biography Award 2015. Winner of the L A Times Book Prize 2015 ( Science and Technology). Shortlisted for the Independent Book Week Award 2016.

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast; there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon.

His colourful adventures read like something out of a Boy's Own story: Humboldt explored deep into the rainforest, climbed the world's highest volcanoes and inspired princes and presidents, scientists and poets alike. Napoleon was jealous of him; Simon Bolívar's revolution was fuelled by his ideas; Darwin set sail on the Beagle because of Humboldt; and Jules Verne's Captain Nemo owned all his many books. He simply was, as one contemporary put it, 'the greatest man since the Deluge'.

The Walter Rothschild: The Man, the Museum and the Menagerie

Miriam Rothschild

Madness and Memory: The Discovery of Prions--A New Biological Principle of Disease

Stanley B. Prusiner

Lab Girl

Hope Jahren

Metamorphosen: Das Leben der Maria Sibylla Merian (WAT)

Natalie Zemon Davis