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immunologists found a test - tube alternative for this, too: they used the molecular biological method of genome editing to systematically «cut out» the gene segment relevant for VLA4 and produce the appropriate «deficient» immune cells.
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Immunologists find a protein that can BLOCK HIV in humans.
Not exact matches
Along with that, occasional rashes and skin outbreaks had led his
immunologist to the conclusion that he was dealing with several allergies, and it was time to
find out which.
Virgin, an
immunologist, said he thinks the new
findings will produce a more complicated but also much more insightful picture of how human, bacterial and viral genes influence human health.
Immunologist Dr Dan Neill, who is the other first author added: «This
finding may explain why patients often suffer from recurrent infections with the same bacterial strain as continual re-infection of the lungs from the upper airways can take place.»
I hope that your existing self - awareness and these resources will help you to
find the one that gives you as much satisfaction as the other
immunologists I have met.
If you'd like to explore a broader range of sectors, you can
find a series of profiles of
immunologists in academia, industry, the National Health Service (NHS), and publishing in a careers brochure produced by the British Society for Immunology (BSI)-- Immunology — a career for the future.
Opsona Therapeutics, for example, a drug development company focusing on the regulation of the human immune system, was
founded in Dublin in 2004 by three
immunologists at Trinity College Dublin.
In a related study also published today in PNAS,
immunologists led by Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy and Hartmut Wekerle of the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, Germany, examined the gut microbiomes of 34 sets of identical twins, aged 21 to 63, in which only one twin had MS.. They
found that Akkermansia was slightly but significantly more abundant in MS patients than in their healthy twins.
Together, the
findings indicate that the virus by itself can wreak havoc, says Michael Diamond, a viral
immunologist at Washington University in St. Louis in Missouri who led the Cell study.
The
immunologist of today, however, is not so much interested in
finding out how to immunize people more effectively against diphtheria or poliomyelitis as he is concerned with understanding what happens when people become immune.
One way to do that, Swiss
immunologist Martin Bachmann has
found, is to mimic a microbial infection.
While studying why some mice resist HSK, a team led by
immunologist Harvey Cantor of Harvard Medical School in Boston
found that possession of a particular variant of one type of antibody renders T cells incapable of attacking tissue in the cornea, the transparent covering of the iris and pupil.
The
finding is the «final piece of evidence that during an infection, a virus can bring about autoimmune disease [by molecular mimicry],» says viral
immunologist Michael Oldstone of The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who first proposed the hypothesis in 1982.
But
immunologist Nordin Zeidner, chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Vector - Host Laboratory in Fort Collins, Colorado, had doubts, and after retesting the technique
found a success rate of just 20 to 30 percent in mice.
Severine Navarro, an
immunologist at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia, is among those on the hunt for these magic molecules, and she believes she has
found one: anti-inflammatory protein - 2 (AIP - 2).
55 New Mouse Organ
Found An
immunologist at the University of Ulm in Germany reported that mice have two thymus organs...
The surprising
finding, reports
immunologist Shannon Turley in the January 2007 issue of Nature Immunology, is that dendritic cells share this job with another group of cells far removed from the intestine.
Columbia University
immunologist Rachel Miller recently
found evidence babies have pretty well developed immune systems by the time they're born.
Researchers had long suspected that two DNA - cutting enzymes called RAG1 and RAG2 are encoded by relics of a DNA transposon, but no one had ever
found a transposon that uses those proteins to slice and hop out of a spot, says
immunologist Anlong Xu of Sun Yat - sen University in Guangzhou, China.
It's not surprising to
find that the nose has its own resident memory T cell security force, says Troy Randall, a pulmonary
immunologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Immunologists have
found two major immune responses that stimulate or suppress the autoimmune response.
For testing for mast cell activation is fairly difficult because you need to
find an
immunologist who's willing to test you for it.
Estimates for the rate of gluten sensitivity range from 6 percent of the population to considerably higher — a randomized population sample of 500 people conducted by
immunologist Aristo Vojdani, PhD
found one in three people had gluten sensitivity.
BrainPOP was
founded in 1999 by Avraham Kadar, M.D., an
immunologist and pediatrician, as a creative way to explain difficult concepts to his young patients.
From his lab at the University of Virginia's Centre for Open Science,
immunologist Dr Tim Errington runs The Reproducibility Project, which attempted to repeat the
findings reported in five landmark cancer studies.