Breaking through First edition

Breaking through

First edition

Material type: 図書

Author: by Dr. Katalin Karikó

Publisher: Crown

Publication date: [2023]

Material Format: Paper

Capacity, size, etc.: 22 cm

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Note (General)：: Summary:"A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist whose decades-long research led to the COVID...

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Material Type: 図書
ISBN: 9780593443163
Title: Breaking through
Author/Editor: by Dr. Katalin Karikó
Edition: First edition
Author Heading: Karikó, Katalin
https://ci.nii.ac.jp/author/DA19990451
Publication, Distribution, etc.: Crown
Publication Date: [2023]
Publication Date (W3CDTF): 2023
Size: 22 cm
Place of Publication (Country Code): us
Text Language Code: en
Subject Heading: Karikó, Katalin
Women biochemists -- United States -- Biography
Biochemists -- United States -- Biography
Women immigrants -- United States -- Biography
Immigrants -- United States -- Biography
Hungarian Americans -- Biography
Hungarians -- United States -- Biography
mRNA vaccines -- Development
COVID-19 vaccines -- Development
LCC: QP511.8.K37
Target Audience: 一般
Note (General): Summary:"A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist whose decades-long research led to the COVID-19 vaccines. Katalin Karikó had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in a one-room home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables. She saw the wonders of nature all around her and was determined to become a scientist. That determination eventually brought her to the United States, where she arrived as a postdoctoral fellow in 1985 with $1,200 sewn into her toddler's teddy bear and a dream to remake medicine. Karikó worked in obscurity, battled cockroaches in a windowless lab, and faced outright derision and even deportation threats from her bosses and colleagues. She balked as prestigious research institutions increasingly conflated science and money. Despite setbacks, she never wavered in her belief that an ephemeral and underappreciated molecule called messenger RNA could change
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NCID: https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BD02409098 : BD02409098
LC Control Number: 2023020863
https://lccn.loc.gov/2023020863