For former Bay Area biochemist Nancy Shine, Ph.D., cards and thank-you notes from grateful families are a reminder of a life-saving project that’s rescued countless infants with botulism. It’s an antitoxin developed from the blood plasma she and a unique group of volunteers donated. Unique, because they were among the few in the country already immunized against botulism because of their potentially dangerous lab work.
“I don’t think anybody thought twice. They were just very enthusiastic about it,” Shine said…