11. Генов намного больше, но не все они продуцируют функционирующие белки.
12. Любопытно, что у людей очень похожие рецепторы реагируют на жгучие масла в васаби.
12. Шоковая терапия
1. Чтобы посмотреть видео, найдите в «Википедии» статью с ключевым словом «Топси».
2. Одну из таких машин можно было увидеть в его доме в Лондоне.
3. Открытие медицинской практики при отсутствии квалификации не было чем-то необычным в те времена.
<p>Дополнительная литература</p>Ниже приведен перечень дополнительной литературы. Я включила в него только те книги и статьи, которые интересны для широкого читателя и легко доступны. Тот, кто желает узнать больше, может найти более детальную библиографию на моем веб-сайте.
Книги
Ashcroft, Frances (2000), Ion Channels and Disease, San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Bakken, Earl (1999), One Man’s Full Life, Minneapolis, MI: Medtronic Inc.
Bryson, Bill (ed.) (2010), Seeing Further, London: Harper Press.
Darwin, Charles (1859), On the Origin of Species, London: John Murray.
Darwin, Charles (1875), Insectivorous Plants, London: John Murray.
Finger, Stanley and Marco Piccolino (2011), The Shocking History of Electric Fishes, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gregory, Richard (1997), Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hodgkin, Alan (1992), Chance and Design: Reminiscences of Science in Peace and War, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hofmann, Albert (1980), LSD: My Problem Child, New York: McGraw-Hill.
Holmes, Richard (2009), The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, London: Harper Press.
von Humboldt, Alexander ( [1834] 1995), Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent, London: Penguin Books.
Huxley, Aldous (1954), The Doors of Perception, London: Chatto and Windus.
Ings, Simon (2007), The Eye: A Natural History, London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Lane, Nick (2009), Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution, London: Profile Books.
Lomas, Robert (1999), The Man who Invented the Twentieth Century, London: Headline Press.
Martin, Paul (2003), Counting Sheep, London: Flamingo.
Medawar, Jean and David Pyke (2001), Hitler’s Gift: Scientists who Fled Nazi Germany, London: Piatkus.
The Oxford Companion to the Body (2001), Colin Blakemore and Sheila Jennett (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The Oxford Companion to the Mind (2004), Richard Gregory (ed.), 2nd edn, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Powers, Francis Gary and Curt Gentry (1971), Operation Overflight, London: Hodder & Stoughton.
de Quincey, Thomas ( [1822], 1986), Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Quintilian (2002), The Orator’s Education, trans. D. L. Russell, Oxford: Loeb Classical Library.
Raeburn, Paul (1995), The Last Harvest, New York: Simon and Schuster.
Rippon, Nicola (2009), The Plot to Kill Lloyd George, London: Wharncliffe Books.
Sacks, Oliver (1996), The Island of the Colour-blind. London: Picador.
Sacks, Oliver (1986) The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, London: Picador.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft ( [1818]), Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Schmidt-Nielsen, Knut (1997), Animal Physiology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Streatfeild, Dominic (2001), Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography, London: Virgin Publishing.
Syson, Lydia (2008), Doctor of Love: James Graham and his Celestial Bed. Richmond: Alma Books.
Wesley, John (1760), Desideratum: Or, Electricity Made Plain and Useful. By a Lover of Mankind, and of Common Sense, London: W. Flexney.
Статьи
Feldberg, W. (1977), ‘The early history of synaptic and neuromuscular transmission by acetylcholine: reminiscences of an eye-witness’, in A. L. Hodgkin et al., The Pursuit of Nature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
