Gary Kobinger has been chasing vaccines since childhood.
Growing up in Quebec City in the early 1990s, he remembers being galvanized to action by documentaries about people infected with HIV-AIDS – back when the illness was still new, mysterious and terrifying.
“In my mind, as a teenager, this was unacceptable. So I decided this was where I would put my energy.”
Photo courtesy of South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology
Wednesday, March 7 – Globe and Mail
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
A few ground-up grams of spongy bone, drilled from a 5,300-year-old mummy’s right hip and painstakingly bathed, sequenced and analyzed, have yielded a near-complete genome of Italy’s Iceman. The discovery not only offers a glimpse into an early human ancestor, but also gives a fresh perspective on one of the leading causes of death in the 21st century: The Iceman had a genetic predisposition to heart disease
a business of misfits 