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BULLETIN ARTICLE Jan 1 2013

An Immunological Arms Race

Protein kinase R is one of the most potent weapons in a cell’s protective arsenal. The enzyme lies dormant until triggered by a replicating virus. Then, it springs into action, shutting down...

BULLETIN ARTICLE Sep 1 2015

Wild Immunology

Dan Bolnick has a summer ritual. Almost every year for the past decade, he’s made the 2,400-mile trek from his home in Austin, Texas, to a campsite on Vancouver Island. It’s no secret...

NEWS Nov 5 2007

Immunologic Death Blow to Cancer Cells

Taking a clue from a rare disorder in which the immune system destroys a patient's cancer even as it attacks the nervous system, researchers have devised a new strategy to fight breast and...

NEWS Sep 14 2007

Probing a Chink in the Immunological Armor

Herpes simplex virus is a common pathogen—infecting about eight out of every 10 adults. Most people who are infected develop nothing more than a bothersome cold sore. But for some, infection with the...

SCIENTISTS

Mark M. Davis

Mark Davis is interested in understanding how the immune system’s T and B lymphocytes recognize specific antigens, and in addressing the unique challenges of studying the human immune system....

SCIENTISTS

Bruce D. Walker

Bruce Walker’s research is focused on learning from patients to define mechanisms of immune system control of chronic viral infections, with an emphasis on those who control HIV infection in the...

SCIENTISTS

Michel C. Nussenzweig

Michel Nussenzweig is interested in the molecular aspects of the immune system’s innate and adaptive responses. Using an approach combining biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetics,...

ALUMNI

Tyler Jacks

Investigator: 1994-2021

SCIENTISTS

Richard A. Flavell

Richard Flavell wants to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms responsible for the body’s immune response. Flavell and his team use transgenic and gene-targeted mice to study innate and...

SCIENTISTS

Xinnian Dong

Xinnian Dong’s research aims to understand local and systemic immune mechanisms in plants. Dong and her team apply genetic, genomic, molecular, and systems-based approaches to study the dynamic...

SCIENTISTS

Jean-Laurent Casanova

Jean-Laurent Casanova is interested in identifying monogenic and digenic disorders that selectively compromise immunity to a single infection in otherwise healthy children and adults. Casanova and...

NEWS Jan 12 2012

Call to Arms

When pathogens invade, growing plants must change their priorities. Growth must be temporarily slowed while the plant turns its attention – and genetic resources – to fortifying its defenses. Now,...

NEWS Feb 5 2009

Blood Platelets Can Kill Malaria Parasites

New studies in mice suggest that blood platelets can destroy deadly malaria parasites. But a single dose of aspirin may interfere with platelets enough to thwart their killing power. The findings...

NEWS Feb 5 2009

Las plaquetas sanguíneas pueden matar parásitos de la malaria

Nuevos estudios en ratones sugieren que las plaquetas sanguíneas pueden destruir los mortales parásitos de la malaria. Pero una única dosis de aspirina puede interferir con las plaquetas de forma...

NEWS Jan 4 2001

Targeting Molecule Could Keep Immune System in Check

By knocking out a molecule that is found on the surface of activated T cells, researchers may have found a way to dampen the runaway immune response that causes a variety of allergic reactions and...

NEWS Apr 20 2000

A New Genomic Caretaker

In every cell, a group of proteins called caretakers keeps vigil for signs of DNA damage. If damage is encountered, these proteins act immediately to repair the DNA and preserve the stability of the...

NEWS Jun 8 2011

Ruslan Medzhitov Awarded Shaw Prize

The Shaw Prize Foundation in Hong Kong announced that Ruslan M. Medzhitov, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Yale University, has been awarded the Shaw Prize in Life Science...

NEWS Jan 11 2008

Common Molecule Notifies Immune System of Prostate Cancer

In experiments with mice, researchers have found that the body's immune system can use a surprisingly common molecule to recognize prostate tumors. The molecule comes from a protein found in all...

NEWS Jul 6 2007

When Tissue Repair Backfires

A new molecular link between inflammation and cancer, discovered through experiments with mice, has revealed how the body's natural repair response to tissue injury can actually spur tumor growth....

NEWS May 26 2000

Immune System Switch Controls Destiny of White Blood Cells

By increasing or decreasing levels of a specific protein, researchers can control the developmental destiny of white blood cells. The finding represents the first evidence that mammalian immune...

NEWS Oct 7 2013

Schekman, Südhof Awarded 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute announced today that Randy W. Schekman, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at the University of California, Berkeley, Thomas C....

NEWS Nov 14 2005

PET Imaging Reveals the Immune System at Work

For clinicians, the ability to look routinely inside the body and see -- at the level of the cell -- how it confronts disease is a distant dream. But in a series of experiments with genetically...

NEWS Jul 8 2004

New Form of Immune System Discovered in Sea Lampreys

The sea lamprey, best known in North America as an invasive predator of fish in the Great Lakes, possesses a primordial immune system quite unlike that found in higher animals, Howard Hughes...

NEWS Jun 7 2004

Clue to Smallpox Immunity

A team of scientists led by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) international research scholar has discovered the immune system mechanism that causes some mice to be more susceptible to mousepox...

NEWS Nov 15 2005

Mouse and Man Differ in Immune Response to Viruses

Patients who were born with a rare and life-threatening susceptibility to certain bacterial infections are revealing idiosyncrasies in their immune system that immunologists never suspected. Those...

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Mark M. Davis

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Tyler Jacks

Richard A. Flavell

Xinnian Dong

Jean-Laurent Casanova

Call to Arms

Blood Platelets Can Kill Malaria Parasites

Las plaquetas sanguíneas pueden matar parásitos de la malaria

Targeting Molecule Could Keep Immune System in Check

A New Genomic Caretaker

Ruslan Medzhitov Awarded Shaw Prize

Common Molecule Notifies Immune System of Prostate Cancer

When Tissue Repair Backfires

Immune System Switch Controls Destiny of White Blood Cells

Schekman, Südhof Awarded 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

PET Imaging Reveals the Immune System at Work

New Form of Immune System Discovered in Sea Lampreys

Clue to Smallpox Immunity

Mouse and Man Differ in Immune Response to Viruses

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Mark M. Davis

Bruce D. Walker

Michel C. Nussenzweig

Tyler Jacks

Richard A. Flavell

Xinnian Dong

Jean-Laurent Casanova

Call to Arms

Blood Platelets Can Kill Malaria Parasites

Las plaquetas sanguíneas pueden matar parásitos de la malaria

Targeting Molecule Could Keep Immune System in Check

A New Genomic Caretaker

Ruslan Medzhitov Awarded Shaw Prize

Common Molecule Notifies Immune System of Prostate Cancer

When Tissue Repair Backfires

Immune System Switch Controls Destiny of White Blood Cells

Schekman, Südhof Awarded 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

PET Imaging Reveals the Immune System at Work

New Form of Immune System Discovered in Sea Lampreys

Clue to Smallpox Immunity

Mouse and Man Differ in Immune Response to Viruses

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