Product Description: The comprehensive history of yeast research. Traces the growing understanding of yeasts and their role in the evolution of microbiology, biochemistry, cytology, and genetics. Details how findings in yeast research were used to overcome complex problems and to develop currently accepted scientific concepts and methods...read more

Product Description: The receptor concept was one of the most influential ideas in 20th-century medicine because it could account for the highly specific effects of drugs on the body. This book is the first to provide an historical discussion of its origin, development, slow acceptance into pharmacology and subsequent impact on modern medicine...read more