Science blogging: a reader’s view
…their writings on the topic. But those who read science blogs have a view too, and I came across a particularly illuminating one today, from a blog entitled My Fair…
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Letters from Albert Sabin
…virus vaccine was produced by passing the three poliovirus serotypes in various cell cultures and searching for variants with reduced neurovirulence. In the days before molecular biology, it was a…
The amazing HeLa cells of Henrietta Lacks
One of the most widely used continuous cell lines for virology is the HeLa cell line, which was derived in 1951 from Henrietta Lacks. What is the origin of this…
Dreaming of inactivated poliovirus vaccine
…might not be possible. Twenty-one cases of paralytic polio were caused by a vaccine-derived poliovirus strain (VDPV). Although it had been known since the 1960s that vaccine viruses excreted by…
Offit on vaccines and autism
…a pediatrician who is also Chief of Infectious Diseases and Director of Vaccine Education at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is co-developer of the rotavirus vaccine and…
New hepatitis C antiviral drugs
Nearly 3% of the world’s population – about 175,000,000 individuals – are infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), and 3-4 million new infections are added each year. A high percentage…