Agosta is fascinated by the ways in which organisms, from bacteria to humans, use chemicals to find mates, subdue prey, cure themselves and for countless other purposes. There are obviously many applications for agriculture, new pesticides and herbicides and natural medicines to name but three. And for rural communities, research into the roles of chemicals in the lifecycles of Sleeping sickness and Leishmaniasis, could lead to alternative ways of combating disease which do not merely have the effect of building resistant populations. Agosta is keen to reveal the secrets of his science to the general reader; his writing is vivid and free from technical jargon or chemical formulae. His subjects include corals which have their own sunscreen (soon ... Read More:
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