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EMPTY HANDED. “Jenner went to London in search of volunteers for vaccination. However, after 3 months he had found none.” https://lnkd.in/eQfnZZv View in LinkedIn

FOUTH DOMAIN. “The “cell-like” features of giant viruses prompted several researchers to propose the striking idea that giant viruses represent a “fourth domain of life” that is distinct from but comparable to the three cellular domains, bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes.” https://lnkd.in/eU7uHHB View in LinkedIn

EMPTY HANDED. “Jenner went to London in search of volunteers for vaccination. However, after 3 months he had found none.” https://lnkd.in/eQfnZZv View in LinkedIn

TIP OF THE ICEBERG. “The recent identification of pandoraviruses and the pithovirus, which are not only huge, by viral standards, but also possess a novel, asymmetrical virion structure, shows that the actual diversity of giant viruses remains to be uncovered.” https://lnkd.in/eU7uHHB View in LinkedIn

EXPERIMENTS ON CHILDREN. “Jenner submitted a paper to the Royal Society in 1797 describing his experiment, but was told that his ideas were too revolutionary and that he needed more proof. Undaunted, Jenner experimented on several other children, including his own 11-month-old son.” http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/jenner_edward.shtml View in LinkedIn

BREAKING THE MOLD. “Not only are the particles of giant viruses bigger than the cells of numerous bacteria and archaea, but also the genomes of pandoraviruses, the current virus world record holders at approximately 2.5 Mb, are substantially larger and richer in gene content than many bacterial and archaeal genomes, from both parasites and free-living microbes, and even the genomes of some parasitic eukaryotes, such as Microsporidia.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12728/full View in LinkedIn

EXPERIMENTS ON CHILDREN. “Jenner submitted a paper to the Royal Society in 1797 describing his experiment, but was told that his ideas were too revolutionary and that he needed more proof. Undaunted, Jenner experimented on several other children, including his own 11-month-old son.” https://lnkd.in/dWmFFud View in LinkedIn

JENNER’S VACCINATION. “In May 1796, Edward Jenner found a young dairymaid, Sarah Nelms, who had fresh cowpox lesions on her hands and arms. On May 14, 1796, using matter from Nelms' lesions, he inoculated an 8-year-old boy, James Phipps. No disease developed, and Jenner concluded that protection was complete.” James Phipps was son of Jenner’s gardener. https://lnkd.in/eQfnZZv View in LinkedIn

OBSESSED. “Although he received worldwide recognition and many honors, Jenner made no attempt to enrich himself through his discovery. He actually devoted so much time to the cause of vaccination that his private practice and his personal affairs suffered severely. However, he not only received honors but also found himself subjected to attacks and ridicule” often by the clergy. https://lnkd.in/eQfnZZv View in LinkedIn

HUMAN FLUID CULTURE MEDIUM. “Naturally occurring cases of cowpox were not common, but it was discovered that the vaccine could be “carried” in humans and reproduced and disseminated human-to-human. Jenner’s original vaccination used lymph from the cowpox pustule on a milkmaid, and subsequent “arm-to-arm” vaccinations applied the same principle...this transfer of human fluids came with its own set of complications.” (Such as the unwitting transfer of other unrelated diseases). https://lnkd.in/dR86xtq View in LinkedIn