Lifesaving science

Curious readers will be fascinated by real images from these different kinds of scans and by illustrations that help explain complicated concepts, such as the electromagnetic spectrum.

Young readers will find out about the development of antibiotics and to how they work in the body.

Curious readers step into the operating room to find out the exact biological mechanisms that make anesthetics work.

An introduction to different types of medical scans, including X-rays, CT scans, MRI scans, ultrasound scans, PET scans, and DEXA scans.

An introduction to vaccines and how they work.

Full-color photographs of actual medical conditions prevented by vaccines and illustrations of these diseases make each seem even more real to the future scientists engaged with each page.