Meredith Wadman

Broschiertes Buch

The Vaccine Race

How Scientists Used Human Cells to Combat Killer Viruses

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Meredith Wadman, MD, has a long profile as a medical reporter and has covered biomedical research politics from Washington, DC, for twenty years. She has written for Nature, Fortune, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. A graduate of Stanford University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she began medical school at the University of British Columbia and completed medical school as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. She is an Editorial Fellow at New America, a DC think tank.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 128mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781784160135
• ISBN-10: 178416013X
• Artikelnr.: 49237630