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Award-winning science and technology journalist Sally Adee reveals the new science of our body’s electrome
A BEST BOOK OF 2023 FOR THE TELEGRAPH, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW SCIENTIST AND STYLIST
A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST READ 2023
Discover the next frontier of scientific understanding: your body’s electrome.
Every cell in your body – bones, skin, nerves, muscle – has a voltage, like a tiny battery. This bioelectricity is why your brain can send signals to your body, why it develops and how it heals itself.
In We Are Electric, award-winning science writer Sally Adee explores the colourful history of bioelectricity and journeys into the remarkable future of the discipline, through today’s laboratories where real-world medical applications are being developed.
“An entertaining account … Adee’s enthusiasm is infectious and she conveys well the jaw-dropping scale and complexity of the “electrome””
the Times
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”We Are Electric is Adee’s thrilling scientific detective story, a rich history that brings us up to date with the latest research”
new Scientist
“Excellent … Sally Adee has written an absorbing and fast-paced account of a field of research that could thus herald a whole new era of paradigm-shifting medicine”
new York Times
“This year’s lightbulb moment”
telegraph
“Adee explores the chemical and electrical ferment underpinning all growth and life, highlighting the pioneers and charlatans who discovered and exploited “bioelectricity”, [she] also conjures electric medicine: a future of good health, regenerated tissue and (perhaps) extended life”
new Scientist
Sally Adee
Sally Adee is an award-winning science and technology writer. She spent ten years as a technology features editor at New Scientist and IEEE Spectrum magazine. She has also written for the New York Times, BBC Future, Quartz and The Economist. She has won a US National Press Club award, a BT Information Security award and the Guild of Health Writers Award for her inside account of Silicon Valley’s young blood clinics.
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