The golden age of vaccine development.

The golden age of vaccine development. “The first vaccine was a lucky accident. Now we can design new vaccines in weeks, atom by atom.” Let’s remember just how lucky we are to have advanced so far with technology: “Stocks of Jenner’s [smallpox] vaccine would die out repeatedly, and needed to be rederived from scratch many times.” Keeping a vaccine going in the 1800s could mean literal “arm to arm chains of transmission” just to preserve the material. ~ learn more