by Alistair Lax.
Published by Oxford (2007), 208 pp, £19.99

Toxin is the story of our struggle to understand, combat and harness the cunning of bacterial poisons. The author, Professor of Cellular Microbiology at King's College London, explains how these molecules work and why they are so successful as well as explaining our long struggle to understand them. The story is peppered with eccentric characters and great rivalries that stretches back the birth of modern biology.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Corby, Northants, UK