Immunity: How Elie Metchnikoff Changed the Course of Modern Medicine by Luba Vikhanski

Immunity: How Elie Metchnikoff Changed the Course of Modern Medicine

Luba Vikhanski

336 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative slow-paced
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Around Christmas of 1882, while peering through a microscope at starfish larvae in which he had inserted tiny thorns, Russian zoologist Elie Metchnikoff had a brilliant insight: what if the mobile cells he saw gathering around the thorns were noth...

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