Sentences with phrase «important in immunology»

The distinction between apoptosis and cell lysis is important in immunology - lysing a virus - infected cell would only release the virions, whereas apoptosis leads to destruction of the virus inside.

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PICI (pronounced «pie - sea»), as it's called by its member scientists, is doing something unprecedented in academic medicine: combining and coordinating the efforts of six of the top cancer immunology centers in the country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all in others.

Janssen Inc. is one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, which are dedicated to addressing and solving some of the most important unmet medical needs in oncology, immunology, neuroscience, infectious diseases and vaccines, and cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.

Hackett said, «Studies of human immunology are usually not the first choice for research in basic immunology, but it is very important now to understand how humans differ from animal models.»

Ian Orme, Colorado State University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology, recently conducted a study that has provided some important new clues, and suggestions for other researchers.

Intestinal permeability, microbiota and immunology play an important role in maintaining the gut environment.

Now, a study published online April 27th, in the Journal of Immunology, confirms that the cytokine GM - CSF (Granulocyte macrophage colony - stimulating factor) likely plays an important role in human disease and offers a new explanation for why the MS treatment interferon - Beta (INF - β) is often effective at reducing MS attacks.

«An interactive lab is important — one that encourages communication not only with the PI but among its members,» says Alison Criss, a postdoctoral fellow in microbiology and immunology at Northwestern University.

Science Immunology will publish original, peer - reviewed, science - based research articles that report critical advances in all areas of immunological research, including important new tools and techniques.

«The findings for this study are not only fascinating but potentially very important, because they point toward a new paradigm: different people react differently, even to the same foods,» says Eran Elinav (@EranElinav), a researcher in the Department of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute and another of the study's senior authors.

«We learned in this study that grabbing hold of these glycans can be a very important early step in an effective immune response to HIV, and with this knowledge, we believe we can design better candidate vaccines,» said principal investigator Dennis R. Burton, professor of immunology and microbiology at TSRI.

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Knowing the answer is important both as a matter of basic immunology and because NK cells, as crucial members of the body's first line of infection defense, are often the subjects of efforts to harness the immune system in protection against infections and cancer.

«This pathway is very important in balancing immunity against pathogens and tolerance against self,» says Zihai Li, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair of Microbiology and Immunology at MUSC, co-leader of the Cancer Immunology Program at the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, and senior author for this study.

«We want to know what the basic function of GATA - 3 in regulating cell biology is, although it has been shown that GATA - 3 is important for the function of CD4 + T cell type to clear extracellular parasites,» said Yisong Wan, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at the UNC School of Medicine and member of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Ian Orme, Colorado State University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology, recently conducted a study that has provided some important new clues, and suggestions for other TB researchers.

This new approach «represents an important advancement,» said Felicia Goodrum Sterling, the director of the graduate program in immunology at the University of Arizona Cancer Center, who was not involved in the research.

«It's important not to interpret this study as an argument against vaccination of our children against flu or any other disease,» Peter Openshaw, president of the British Society for Immunology and Professor of Experimental Medicine at Imperial College London (who wasn't involved in the study) told the Science Media Centre.

«These are very promising findings and, as the first study to demonstrate protection from Zika in the pregnancy setting, are an important development in our efforts to combat Zika virus,» said Michael Diamond, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology, and Associate Director, Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Program at Washington University School of Medicine, and a lead author on the Cell paper.

«Aedes mosquitoes have become increasingly important as vectors of disease from a public health perspective,» said George Dimopoulos, a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at John Hopkins University who was not involved in the study.

Dr. Allison: I think CRI plays a very important role in, among other things, funding the training of young scientists and trying to interest them in cancer, particularly cancer immunology.

From his laboratory have emerged some of the most important discoveries in immunology.

The latest findings reported by researchers at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology illustrate just how important TET proteins are in controlling cell proliferation and cell fate.

The Leadership Council is an advisory group of distinguished individuals who are dedicated to advancing the mission of The Wistar Institute — to solve some of the world's most challenging and important problems in the fields of cancer, immunology and infectious diseases, and produce groundbreaking advances in world health.

The mission of The Wistar Institute is to marshal the talents of outstanding scientists through a highly - enabled culture of biomedical collaboration and innovation, in order to solve some of the world's most challenging and important problems in the field of cancer, immunology, and infectious diseases, and produce groundbreaking advances in world health.

«We are the first to demonstrate that these pTregs are important in autoimmune diabetes,» says Kissler, who is senior author on a report in the European Journal of Immunology and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Mitchison conducted important research in the field of transplant immunology and tolerance.

Additionally, in the context of immune mediated diseases it is important to combine genomics with immunology approaches.

A renowned molecular immunologist and pioneer in the design and delivery of DNA vaccines, Weiner has more than 25 years of trailblazing research in immunology and vaccine creation, and has contributed to important achievements in DNA vaccine development.

Rather than considering sanitation, hygiene, or vaccines to be the most important tools in the fight against infectious disease, the Jaminets provide a refreshing integration of the fields of immunology and nutrition.

In order to treat these patients quickly and effectively, it is important to understand the basics of immunology as well as numerous causes of anaphylaxis.

«While still active in the area of infectious disease, in recent years Al became focused on clinical oncology and has been able to transfer his knowledge of immunology into this important area.»