Metal ions are tightly regulated in human health: while essential to human life, they are potentially toxic as well.In the latest volume of the prestigious Metal Ions in Life Science series the potential benefits, as well as toxicities, of the administration of metal ions to humans, and the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry and human disease, are discussed.

Peggy L. Carver, College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.