The Beautiful Cure

Gives extraordinary new details of an ancient remedy that is already more marvellous, powerful and flexible than any medicine to come out of a lab

Roger Highfield

Thrilling ... An eye-opening tour de force of scientific writing that reads like the best kind of adventure story

Stephen Fry

This book is an insight into new, remarkable and almost unnoticed advances in immunology and shows how medicine is moving on from the world of the gene to the world of the antibody

Steve Jones

Thoroughly absorbing ... Davis is a wonderful storyteller

Bill Bryson

The human body is the most complicated assemblage of chemicals in the known universe. It's a huge scientific challenge to understand how we metabolise, how we acquire immunity, and how drugs work. Daniel Davis is a distinguished expert in this field – and he's a fine writer too. He portrays vividly how great discoveries emerge – via prolonged effort, via cooperation and competition, and sometime sheer luck. This gripping book gives an authentic flavour of how science is actually done – and why it's important for humanity's future

Martin Rees

Forget AI, robotics, the internet of things. This is where the future feels strange and exciting: in the 'inner universe' of our immune system, and in the radically new therapies that are using it to conquer disease

Sunday Times

A sweeping tour d’horizon … lucid and entertaining … Much as Siddhartha Mukherjee did in his book The Gene, Davis expertly weaves together human stories and scientific endeavour

The Times

Thrilling … Do not underestimate the importance of immunology. This field relates to you personally

Adam Rutherford, Guardian

A terrific book by a consummate storyteller and scientific expert

Guardian

Highly readable, beautifully researched, backed up with notes, references and interviews by Davis himself, whose status as an immunology professor confers added credibility. He believes that we now know enough about the major components and interactions of the immune system to begin manipulating them to cure diseases such as cancer. We stand, he predicts, on the threshold of a medical revolution

New Scientist

Any reader completely unfamiliar with the workings of the immune system is likely to be dumbstruck with admiration for its intricacy ... Davis's book is full of enlivening little anecdotes

Literary Review

Terrific ... Davis relates the extraordinary modern developments in supercharging the body’s own immune system to fight disease, and one day maybe even eliminate cancer

Steven Poole, *****Telegraph

New ways to treat cancer, diabetes, arthritis and other age-related diseases … Davis is a sure and engaging guide to these developments

Observer

One of the best accounts I have yet come across of the nature of biological science … Daniel Davis’s wonderful book recounts in exceptionally clear and sympathetic prose how research into the immune system has resulted in a health revolution

Henry Marsh, New Statesman

An inspirational book that not only reveals the secret joys of scientific discovery but is jam-packed full of revelations for non-scientists

Mail on Sunday

[The Beautiful Cure] offers fresh perspectives on future research strategies

Audrey R. Glynn, Science

Superb

Matt Chilton, **Books of the Year**, Daily Telegraph

We all think we know how the immune system works, roughly. This exciting and elegant book on new discoveries shows how wrong we were

50 Best Books of 2018, Daily Telegraph

An excellent book on our immune system. His lucid prose lets the science speak for itself, and it beautifully illuminates one of the most exciting frontiers of modern medicine

Science Focus