The Vaccine Race. How Scientists Used Human Cells to Combat Killer Viruses

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2018 **** A GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 **‘Riveting … invites comparison to Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’NatureThe epic and controversial story of a major breakthrough in cell biology that led to the conquest of rubella and other devastating diseases.
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, whil