In his new book, A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine, Robin Wolfe Scheffler explores the United States’s century-long search for a human cancer virus and reveals the ways in which the effort, while ultimately fruitless, profoundly shaped our understanding of life at its most fundamental levels.
We sent Scheffler a few questions to learn more about his research, his motivations for writing the book, his recent reads, and more. READ MORE: 5 Questions for Robin Wolfe Scheffler