How Elie Metchnikoff Changed the Course of Modern Medicine
by
Luba Vikhanski, Luba Vikhanski
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
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 the same as white blood cells that traveled to the site...