Kevin joins Immune to discuss his work showing that antibodies against endogenous retroviruses promote immunotherapy of lung cancer.
Immune discusses immunological imprinting, also called original antigenic sin, in the context of infection with SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus.
Immune discusses the current understanding of immune memory to SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccines, which supersedes that of any other acute infectious disease.
Immune 63: Immune, promptly
- December 20, 2022
- Tagged as: antibody, B cells, germinal center, immune, immunology, lymph node, T cells
Cindy, Steph, Brianne, and Vincent review some of their favorite immunology papers of 2022. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cynthia Leifer, Steph Langel, and Brianne Barker Click arrow to playDownload Immune 63 (62 MB .mp3, 103 min)Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts. RSS, emailBecome…
Gabriel Victora joins Immune to review how high affinity antibodies are produced in the germinal centers of secondary lymphoid tissues.
Immune 49: I fell in love with worms with Keke Fairfax
- October 13, 2021
- Tagged as: B cells, egg antigen, helminth, IL-4, immune, immunology, immunometabolism, macrophage, schistosomiasis
Keke Fairfax joins Immune to discuss the work from her laboratory on understanding how maternal schistosomiasis impairs IL-4 production and B cell expansion in offspring, and modulation of macrophage immunometabolism by helminths.
Immune 45: Immune messages
- June 16, 2021
- Tagged as: antibody, B cells, complement, COVID-19, germinal centers, immune, immunology, macrophages, T cells, vaccine
On this episode of Immune, we answer listener questions about CAR-Macs, complement and COVID-19, sleep and the immune system, caving and the immune system, germinal centers, COVID-19 vaccines and much more.
Immune 42: Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 antibody immunity with Christian Gaebler
- February 13, 2021
- Tagged as: antibody, B cells, coronavirus, COVID-19, immune, immunology, memory B cells, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2
Christian joins Immune to discuss the humoral memory response in a cohort of 87 individuals 1.3 and 6.2 months after infection with SARS-CoV-2.
Immune 33: COVID-19 immunotypes
- July 28, 2020
- Tagged as: antibody, B cells, CD4 cells, CD8 cells, cell sorting, COVID-19, cytokines, FACS profiling, immune, immunology, immunotypes, lymphocytes, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, T cells
Immune explains a study of 125 COVID-19 patients by deep immune profiling, which revealed three immunotypes associated with poor clinical prognosis or recovery.
Immune 21: Islets of Langelhans
- June 12, 2019
- Tagged as: autoimmunity, B cells, BCR, dual expressing lymphocytes, immune, immunology, public BCR, T cells, TCR, type I diabetes
Immune tackles the finding that patients with Type I diabetes have lymphocytes with both TCR and BCR that may drive the pathogenesis of the disease.