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Breanna Allen

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Breanna Allen is a BMS graduate student studying systems immunology in the Spitzer lab, and contributes to Synapse as both writer and copy editor.
  • Science
Thursday, October 5, 2017 - 14:00

Only A Mother's Immunity

By Breanna Allen
Scientists are making discoveries that give hope to global improvements in healthy pregnancies. The immune system is naturally primed to prevent invaders from thriving in the human body. Pregnancy presents an interesting challenge where immunity must balance defense and fetal tolerance — the fetus is foreign but must thrive. A mother reconfigures her own own defense system, constantly, as the fetus grows and changes.
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Friday, September 15, 2017 - 20:47

Fighting the Common Cold in Space

By Breanna Allen

For years we have known that spaceflight causes immune dysfunction, weakening the human body’s ability to fight off even the common cold.

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  • Academic
Monday, May 22, 2017 - 15:27

From Bench to Bedside

By Breanna Allen
​What does it take to repair a broken heart? The Biomedical Sciences (BMS) graduate program at UCSF is instilling in us profound respect for medical practitioners, and the awareness that our daily work in the lab — monotonous hours of pipetting and repeatedly failing for the slim hope of success — eventually leads to better understanding, tools, and therapies to repair damage in the human body. To repair a broken heart, it takes doctors, researchers, and those bridging the gap between a test tube and human. Doctors and researchers alike share responsibility in building, supporting, and traversing this two-way bridge, from “bench to bedside” and back again, bringing better disease understanding to researchers and advances to therapies.
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  • Science
Monday, January 23, 2017 - 13:40

Using the Body to Fight Cancer

By Breanna Allen
In the fight against cancer, harnessing the natural defense mechanisms within the human body is gaining promise. Termed cancer immunotherapy, researchers have discovered ways to bolster the immune system to recognize and kill cancer cells.
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  • Science
Monday, January 16, 2017 - 08:54

Diet Against Disease

By Breanna Allen

“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are,” Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1826.

What you consume not only affects the health and appearance of your body, but also the integrity of the mind.

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