Sabias

This is not exactly a book about women scientists. It is a book about the great challenges that science and medicine are trying to solve in the 21st century and about how nine Spanish women are fighting this battle, on the front line, so that light can defeat the darkness of ignorance and disease. The protagonists of these chapters are at the forefront of the investigation of the origin of our DNA, of the fight against cellular aging, against the degradation of ecosystems, in the search for a solution against cancer or infertility and in the understanding of the keys that will allow us to build an instruction manual for the universe. With his ability to make the most complex topics understandable, the scientific journalist Antonio Villarreal outlines a profile of these nine researchers enrolled in the most relevant fields of study of the moment, the same ones that will define the knowledge of the next hundred years. Some are well known, awarded and established; Others, younger but equally brilliant, are on the way, but they all share for the science of the 21st century that idea that Karen Spärck Jones defended for computing: it is something too important to be left only to men.