SCIENTIFIC METHOD
The movie wasn’t afraid to show failure as scientists struggled to race to find an antidote to a global epidemic—a refreshingly honest depiction of science in real life.
Mississippi Miracle
A 6-year-old boy in the state and a clever legal argument in 1979 combined to make Mississippi the nation’s leader in childhood vaccines.
get your anti-equinators
Edward Jenner figured out the connection between smallpox and humans from a milkmaid’s blistered hands. But it turns out cows aren’t actually the key to smallpox immunity.
The good old days
The unique bacterial DNA of CpG oligonucleotides will reinforce the hepatitis B vaccine and could drop liver cancer rates.
Hope After Death
Cytokine storms killed him in 1999, effectively halting gene therapy. But without his death, immunotherapy wouldn’t exist as we know it today.
A 'Godsend'
For older adults, who are often the most vulnerable to severe and occasionally fatal infections, this kind of immune-boosting strategy will be a godsend.