MIT scientist attaches camera to his newborn's head, and the NY Times is there. (Link). This seems less surprising than they make it out to be, though the picture is quite cute. The article is mainly about people doing speech and vision studies, but there is mention of Salk giving his child the experimental polio vaccine. It isn't mentioned in the article, but Maurice Hilleman made the mumps vaccine using virus isolated from his daughter's throat (the Jeryl Lynn strain).
Full disclosure: I have a couple of my daughter's group A streptococcus strains from episodes of strep throat sitting in the -80C freezer in the lab.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Using your kids as experimental subjects...
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