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[caption id="attachment_1634" align="aligncenter" width="622"] Co-Editors Kieran Manion (left) and Catherine Schrankel (right).[/caption] “Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution”— this was the thesis of a seminal...

[caption id="attachment_1634" align="aligncenter" width="622"] Co-Editors Kieran Manion (left) and Catherine Schrankel (right).[/caption] We open Volume 3 of IMMpress with an issue on Biotechnology, our first as new co-editors. Biotechnology is...

[caption id="attachment_868" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Yuriy Baglaenko and Charles Tran, Co-Editors-in-Chief.[/caption] Psoriasis is a disorder characterized by the recruitment of inflammatory dendritic cells, macrophages, and T cells to the skin causing...

[caption id="attachment_868" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Yuriy Baglaenko and Charles Tran, Co-Editors-in-Chief.[/caption] In 1987, the first drug against HIV, azidothymidine (AZT), was approved by the FDA. At that time in the epidemic,...

[caption id="attachment_900" align="alignright" width="400"] Dr. Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, Chair, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto[/caption] In January of 2013, a bold new initiative was made a reality, and graduate students...

[caption id="attachment_868" align="alignright" width="700"] Yuriy Baglaenko and Charles Tran, Co-Editors-in-Chief.[/caption] Women’s health is a broad topic that encompasses not only health and disease risk at the level of biological sex,...

[caption id="attachment_900" align="alignright" width="400"] Dr. Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, Chair, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto[/caption] Addressing important issues in our field and in life sciences in general is what we...

[caption id="attachment_868" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Yuriy Baglaenko and Charles Tran, Co-Editors-in-Chief.[/caption] The War on Cancer, so famously declared by US president Richard Nixon in 1971, is a war that we are...

The ability of the immune system to bring about an effective anti-cancer response is no longer in question, or thought to be an out-of-reach application of immunological theories. The journal...

[column size="two-third"] The IMMpress Magazine team is again delighting us with another exciting and timely issue. With the start of autumn and with the flu season upon us, IMMpress Magazine...