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Immune 74: Germinal center dynamics with Carla Nowosad

  • December 11, 2023
  • Tagged as: B cell, germinal center, immune, immunology, lymph node, lymphoid organ

Carla Nowosad joins Immune to discuss her career and her work on germinal centers, the structure in secondary lymphoid tissues where B cells proliferate, differentiate, and diversify their immunoglobulin genes by somatic hypermutation.

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Immune 73: Big macs

  • November 7, 2023
  • Tagged as: B cells, immune, immune cells, immunology, macrophage, T cell

Immune reveals the total mass (1.2kg), number (1.8 trillion), and distribution of immune cells in the human body, with macrophages contributing nearly 50% of the total cellular mass.

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Immune 72: After dark in the library with Ellen Rothenberg

  • September 23, 2023
  • Tagged as: antibody, immune, immunology, T cell, transcription factor

From Cornell University in Ithaca New York, Vincent and Cindy meet with Ellen Rothenberg to review her career in science, starting with work on retroviruses to unraveling transcriptional networks underlying T-cell development and signaling.

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Immune 71: Can parasitic worms prevent pandemics?

  • September 8, 2023
  • Tagged as: coronavirus, COVID-19, helminth, immune, immunology, macrophage, pandemic, roundworm, SARS-CoV-2, T cell

Immune explains how, in a mouse model of roundworm infection with Nippostrongylus brasiliensis, exposure to lung-migrating helminths protects mice against SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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Immune 70: Immunology of picky eating

  • July 26, 2023
  • Tagged as: allergy, atopy, brain, food allergy, food avoidance, IgE, immune, immunology, leukotriene, mast cell

Immune explains how mast cells, IgE antibody, and the brain collaborate to promote avoidance of certain foods to evade allergic responses.

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Immune 69: Lung cancer and retroviruses

  • June 15, 2023
  • Tagged as: antibody, B cells, cancer, endogenous retrovirus, env protein, ERV, germinal center, immune, immune checkpoint blockade, immunology, lung adenocarcinoma, tertiary lymphoid structure

Kevin joins Immune to discuss his work showing that antibodies against endogenous retroviruses promote immunotherapy of lung cancer.

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Immune 68: Sins and blessings of immunity

  • May 18, 2023
  • Tagged as: antibody, B cells, coronavirus, COVID-19, immune, immune memory, immunological imprinting, immunology, original antigenic sin, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2

Immune discusses immunological imprinting, also called original antigenic sin, in the context of infection with SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus.

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Immune 67: Can T cells live forever?

  • May 3, 2023
  • Tagged as: immune, immunology, longevity, memory T cell, senescence, supernumerary cell division, T cells, vaccination

Immune explains the results of a study which show that in mice, functional T cells respond to vaccination for over 10 years and 51 successive immunizations, exhibiting supernumerary cell division and longevity.

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Immune 66: COVID-19 immune memory – what you need to know

  • April 4, 2023
  • Tagged as: affinity maturation, antibody, B cells, coronavirus, COVID-19, hybrid immunity, immune, immune memory, immunology, natural immunity, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, somatic hypermutation, T cell, vaccine, vaccine booster

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.

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Immune 65: Infection infidelities with Jonathan Kagan

  • February 20, 2023
  • Tagged as: immune, immunology, innate immunity, interferon, pathogen-associated molecular pattern, toll-like receptor

Jon joins Immune to discuss the research of his laboratory on understanding how the innate immune system recognizes and responds to pathogens, and his hypothesis that infection infidelities drive innate immunity.

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