MWV 109 - The Never-ending Vaccine Race (Audio Only)
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English - February 27, 2017 15:25 - 1 hour - 55.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Education viruses bacteria fungi microbes microbeworld microbiology mycology science virology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Veteran medical journalist Meredith Wadman discusses her book The Vaccine Race. It tells the timely, epic, and controversial story of the development of the first widely-used normal human cell line and, through it, important viral vaccines, including the vaccine for rubella (German measles). Far from being an instrument of history, vaccine development in the modern era is targeting new (and reemerging) infectious diseases, including Ebola, Zika, Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). Dr. April Killikelly, a scientist at NIH's Vaccine Research Center, discusses the latest tools and technologies used to design tomorrow’s vaccines.