The Code of Life

Originally published in the Soviet Union, in this book the author relates in popular language the attainments of biology and medicine, and about the future of these sciences.

The reader will learn about exciting operations on the heart, the mystery of cancer, the use of electronics in medicine and about ingenious experiments aimed at extracting fresh information. He will get acquainted with viruses and the construction of the living cell, and will learn about the role of rapidly developing molecular biology.

Physician and writer Anatoly Shvarts has done much to popularize biology and medicine. He has written several widely-read books about Russian doctors and physiologists.

In The Code of Life Shvarts takes the present-day level of biology and medicine and extends it into the future.