Vaccines, the immune memory trick
“With the exception of safe water, no other modality… has had such a major effect on mortality reduction and population growth.” – Susan and Stanley Plotkin, Vaccine 5th ed (2008).1[…]
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Big Pharma 2.0: Open Source Drug Discovery
In the age of “Big Data”, hypothetical coding sequences and poorly characterized proteins are common. Transcriptomic and proteomic datasets regularly result in disappointment, as the top hit is often some[…]
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Mom’s Microbes Know Best
More than 100 years ago, French pediatrician Henry Tissier declared that babies were bacteria-free in the womb. Colonization, he claimed, began during the birthing process, not before. While bacterial transmission[…]
Marsupial Mommas: Maternal Immunity In Those Other Mammals
What does the term “maternal immunology” mean to you? As a mammal yourself, you probably consider things like microbial colonization during live birth, or the transfer of maternal antibodies through[…]
Are We Prepared? A Student Review of the Graduate Professional Development (GPD) Course
My involvement with the GPD began in 2012, when under the auspices of the Immunology Graduate Students Association (IGSA) I helped to initiate the student-run Career Development Series, which invites[…]
It’s Not All About T cells: Dendritic Cell Development in the Thymus
Among the vast T cell population in the thymus are some dendritic cells (DCs) that home to the medullary regions. Some studies have shown that these DCs can obtain self-peptides[…]
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