So You Want To Be A Vaccine Developer (Immunologist)

Summary

WINNER of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award The pathogen is identified. The team begins searching for a target — a single protein on the virus's surface, the molecular handle the immune system can be taught to grab. Finding it takes patience, structural biology tools that can see a germ atom by atom, and a willingness to follow the science wherever it leads. And then comes the real work. Years of it. And somewhere on the other end of all that effort is a child who will never get sick from a ...