Germ Zappers by Fran Balkwill and Mic Rolph, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Press, $8.95, ISBN 0879695986
PARENTS wearied by the bizarre exploits of Metal Greymon, Goku or Bubbles
(don’t ask) might try presenting their embattled child with Germ
Zappers. This nifty little book is in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press’s
Enjoy Your Cells series. It showcases home-grown heroes鈥攖he cells of the
immune system.
It’s presented with brilliant simplicity: the drawings are accurate, the text
is a doddle to understand. Nor can you lose with plot lines like
these鈥攎urder by squashing, macrophages as super rubbish collectors,
neutrophils engaged on…
