The Vaccine Tree (Plus An Extended Deadline For The Science Ink Book) [Science Tattoo]

Shi-Hsia Hwa writes, I'm a virologist in a biotech company in Singapore. Here's my story: I've been interested in infectious diseases since I was a kid, because my father almost died of TB when he was an infant. I must have been the only kid who looked forward to mass vaccination days in school. For a field trip to the Philippines after my bachelor's and my first job shortly thereafter, I had to be immunized against a lot of other things that the average person doesn't. The choice of motif was inspired by a verse from the Biblical book of Revelation (a k a Apocalypse): "On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations." The "tree of life" motif in Western folk art is a ...