Microexplorers take children from 8 to 12 years of age (and interested adults) on an exciting and instructive tour into the invisible world of cells and beyond. In order to make tiny things visible, everybody gets into Professor Gene's MicroMachine, which shrinks its passengers until they are small enough to: -- enter the body and encounter cells -- see and explore internal organs and structures -- understand the fantastic biological machinery that keeps all living beings alive. Microexplorers was written by Prof. Patrick A. Baeuerle, a renowned scientist in the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology, together with Norbert Landa, an experienced author of nonfiction children's books. These volumes offer a unique, attractive, and child-oriented approach to the structures and processes which - although invisible to the naked eye - shape our everyday lives.