The Vaccine Race: How Scientists Used Human Cells To Combat Killer Viruses

Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant; there was no vaccine and little understanding of how the disease devastated foetuses. The is story of a major breakthrough in cell biology.

• | By (Author): Meredith Wadman
• | Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• | Publication Date: Feb 08, 2018
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 624 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 178416013X
• | ISBN-13: 9781784160135