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Taming The Immune System: The Nobel-Winning Story of Regulatory T Cells

The immune system faces a paradox: it must recognize dangerous invaders while carefully sparing the body it protects. This is not an enviable job.

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Nikhita Kirthivasan

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The Future of Health: Gizmos and Gadgets Edition

March 18, 2015

Hanna Starobinets

Wearable technology, implantable nano-devices, 3D-printed organs and drones are all slowly but surely bringing us to the fabulous science fiction...

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KNOX Medical Diagnostics Wants to Let Patients Test Their Lungs at Home

March 18, 2015

Yarrow Madrona

The explosion of smart phones over the last decade has paved the way for an industry of personalized and portable...

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Avoiding nutritional causes of disease

March 5, 2015

Hanna Starobinets

Rates of childhood peanut allergies in the Western world have doubled in the last decade: the current rate is estimated...

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Journal Club: Neuoscience, Physiology and Biochemistry

March 5, 2015

Taylor LaFlam

Reviews of journal articles covering topics of Neuoscience, Physiology and Biochemistry.

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Renaissance woman: Kelly Weinersmith on science, outreach and family

March 5, 2015

Hanna Starobinets

Kelly Weinersmith recently completed her Ph.D. at UC Davis and is now a Huxley Fellow at Rice University in Houston...

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Tumor immunology takes off

February 20, 2015

Hanna Starobinets

Tumors are not just solid masses of cancer cells. As those cancer cells grow and divide, they hijack all the...

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‘One Size Doesn’t Fit All’: What precision medicine holds for our future

February 18, 2015

Aaron Dolor

“Tonight, I’m launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes—and to...

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Journal Club: Microbiology, Cell Biology, and Microbiology & Computational Biology

February 18, 2015

Taylor LaFlam

Reviews of journal articles covering topics of Microbiology, Cell Biology, and Microbiology & Computational Biology.

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Interview with new Institute of Computational Health Sciences director Atul Butte

February 18, 2015

Lauren Shields

The following is an edited transcript of an interview with Dr. Atul Butte: Can you talk broadly about some of...

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Taming The Immune System: The Nobel-Winning Story of Regulatory T Cells

The Future of Health: Gizmos and Gadgets Edition

KNOX Medical Diagnostics Wants to Let Patients Test Their Lungs at Home

Avoiding nutritional causes of disease

Journal Club: Neuoscience, Physiology and Biochemistry

Renaissance woman: Kelly Weinersmith on science, outreach and family

Tumor immunology takes off

‘One Size Doesn’t Fit All’: What precision medicine holds for our future

Journal Club: Microbiology, Cell Biology, and Microbiology & Computational Biology

Interview with new Institute of Computational Health Sciences director Atul Butte

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