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From African plants to vaccine preservation / by Nel Yomtov.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: 21st century skills innovation library. Innovations from naturePublisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan : Cherry Lake Publishing, 2014Description: 32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1624317537 (lib. bdg.)
  • 1624317596 (pbk.)
  • 9781624317538 (lib. bdg.)
  • 9781624317590 (pbk.)
Subject(s):
Contents:
Keeping you healthy -- A remarkable desert plant -- How it's done -- Trehalose's sweet future -- Vaccine visionaries.
Summary: Explains how nature has inspired technological innovations on the similarities between an African plant and the invention of a new way to preserve vaccines.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 615.372 Y54 Available 33111007538701
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Learn about how nature has inspired technological innovations with this book on the similarities between an African plant and preserving vaccines. Integrating both historical and scientific perspectives, this book explains how a plant inspired the invention of a new way to preserve vaccines. Readers will make connections and examine the relationship between the two concepts. Sidebars, photographs, a glossary, and a concluding chapter on important people in the field add detail and depth to this informational text on biomimicry.

Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.

Keeping you healthy -- A remarkable desert plant -- How it's done -- Trehalose's sweet future -- Vaccine visionaries.

Explains how nature has inspired technological innovations on the similarities between an African plant and the invention of a new way to preserve vaccines.

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