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12 November 2002 | ScienceNOW

Stalking Immune System Traitors

by Caroline Seydel
Engineered T cells hunt down their disease-causing cousins
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5 November 2002 | ScienceNOW

Whence White Blood Cells?

by Caroline Seydel
New results suggest that skin's sentries may rejuvenate on site
4 November 2002 | ScienceNOW

Hints of an Early Antibody Arsenal

by Jay Withgott
A lowly marine organism yields new clues to immune system evolution
3 October 2002 | ScienceNOW

Lamprey Immunity Poised to Evolve

by Deborah Hill
The ancient fish can mobilize immune defenses but forgets past invaders
6 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

How the Body Fires Up a Joint

by Mary Beckman
Mast cells coordinate two-pronged immune attack in arthritic mice
29 August 2002 | ScienceNOW

Mommy, Can We Have Another Puppy?

by Deborah Hill
Living with multiple pets protect newborns from allergies, study finds
27 June 2002 | ScienceNOW

How Immune Cells Take Aim

by Deborah Hill
Deadly pulses of toxins keep attack focused on invading cells
21 May 2002 | ScienceNOW

Sicker From Soy?

by Deborah Hill
Estrogen-like compound in soy impairs immune function in mice
17 May 2002 | ScienceNOW

Tooth decay? Get Milk!

by Ben Shouse
Quaffing milk from specially vaccinated cows could fight cavities
23 April 2002 | ScienceNOW

New Anthrax Vaccine Gets a Green Light

by Martin Enserink
U.S. government seeks bids for development of vaccine to protect civilians
19 March 2002 | ScienceNOW

Tracking a New Suspect in Arthritis

by Ben Shouse
Antibodies to a widespread molecule could cause hot spots of inflammation
22 February 2002 | ScienceNOW

Pushing Bad T Cells Over the Edge

by Elizabeth Finkel
How the immune system gets rid of T cell traitors
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13 June 2001 | ScienceNOW

A Potato a Day Keeps Diarrhea Away

by Michael Hagmann
Vaccine-spiked potatoes protect mice from cholera and other diseases
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1 June 2001 | ScienceNOW

Lifesaving Errors of Immunity

by Michael Hagmann
How a sloppy enzyme helps keep our immune system on edge
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4 April 2001 | ScienceNOW

Learning to Love Yourself

by Michael Hagmann
Special class of T cells may help prevent autoimmune diseases
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27 March 2001 | ScienceNOW

Tick Spit Dampens Immunity

by Alka Agrawal
Saliva protein blocks immune cells from multiplying
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20 March 2001 | ScienceNOW

Cat Cooties Possibly Protective

by R. John Davenport
Children exposed to cats have less of a troublesome antibody in their blood
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20 February 2001 | ScienceNOW

Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis Linked by Mouse Model

by Martha Downs
Research supports idea that common gene underlies different autoimmune diseases
9 November 2000 | ScienceNOW

The Problem With Promiscuity

by R. John Davenport
Having multiple partners requires a stronger immune system, study suggests
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16 October 2000 | ScienceNOW

Texas Immunologist Faked Results

by David Malakoff
Papers withdrawn and colleagues furious
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17 August 2000 | ScienceNOW

Xenotransplants Take Glancing Blow

by Elizabeth Pennisi
Ancient pig virus spreads in mice lacking immune systems
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2 August 2000 | ScienceNOW

Vaccine Boosts Xenotransplant Hopes

by Trisha Gura
Study shows immunization can "prepare" mice for pig tissue, delay transplant rejection
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12 July 2000 | ScienceNOW

How the Immune System Walks Memory Lane

by Michael Hagmann
Repeated infections trigger attack on all fronts
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11 July 2000 | ScienceNOW

Shot in the Arm for Edible Vaccines

by R. John Davenport
Transgenic fruits and vegetables may replace injections
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19 June 2000 | ScienceNOW

A New 'Self' Message for Immune Cells

by Michael Hagmann
To avoid being killed by the immune system, a body's cells carry messages that mark them as friends, not foes. Until now, researchers only knew about a type of message...
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6 April 2000 | ScienceNOW

Artificial Cells Bait the Immune System

by Adrian Cho
Much as prison guards sic bloodhounds on an escaped inmate, certain cells set the immune system's killer cells on the molecular trails of viruses or other intruders. Now researchers have...
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10 March 2000 | ScienceNOW

Alerting the Immune System to Tumors

by Oliver Baker
Tumors go mostly unmolested by the body's natural defenses, partly because cancer cells are descendents of normal body cells. Now researchers have achieved success in human patients with a ruse...
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4 February 2000 | ScienceNOW

A New Weapon Against Septic Shock

by Anna Davison
When a bacterial infection rages out of control and courses through the blood stream, the immune system can fight so hard that it throws the body into septic shock. Now...
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11 November 1999 | ScienceNOW

Memory T Cells Don't Need to Rehearse Their Lines

by Michael Hagmann
Scientists have long debated whether an immune cell needs to be regularly reminded of which particular germs to fight or whether its memory is ever-lasting. Two reports in tomorrow's issue...
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3 November 1999 | ScienceNOW

Let There Be Hair

by Michael Hagmann
The roots of all hairs, their follicles, can be swapped from one person to another without bringing on fierce immune attacks seen with almost every other kind of transplanted tissue,...
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1 November 1999 | ScienceNOW

Transplant Drug Blocks Tolerance

by Gretchen Vogel
Scientists have new clues about why a common immunosuppressive drug, cyclosporin, may be sabotaging a promising new therapy for organ transplants. The reason seems to be cyclosporin's competing effects: While...
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24 September 1999 | ScienceNOW

On the Way to a Better Immunosuppressant?

by Science News Staff
Swapping body parts can save lives, but it has a serious risk. A transplant operation requires that patients be given powerful immunosuppressive drugs with potentially devastating side effects such as...
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20 September 1999 | ScienceNOW

Vaccinations Without the Ouch!

by Dana Mackenzie
One of the rites of childhood could soon become a thing of the past: the vaccination shot. Researchers have found that in mice, at least, vaccines made of pure DNA...
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3 September 1999 | ScienceNOW

A Sense of Self

by Science News Staff
Today would have been the 100th birthday of Frank Burnet, an Australian immunologist and virologist who explained how the body's immune system distinguishes between "self" and "nonself." Burnet studied viruses...
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28 July 1999 | ScienceNOW

Aboriginal Clue to Hepatitis

by Science News Staff
Today is the 74th birthday of Baruch Blumberg, an American research physician whose work has led to blood screening and a vaccine against hepatitis B. As chief of the...
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19 July 1999 | ScienceNOW

A Bloody Measure

by Science News Staff
In search of tiny amounts of antibodies, medical physicist Rosalyn Yalow developed a technique that came up very big for biomedical researchers. Today is the 78th birthday of the Nobel...
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3 June 1999 | ScienceNOW

Computer-Aided Vaccines

by Michael Hagmann
Making a safe and effective vaccine isn't easy. Usually only a handful of protein snippets, or peptides, from a pathogen are able to spark a protective immune response. Now researchers...
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2 June 1999 | ScienceNOW

Kidney Rejection Prevented in Monkeys

by Gretchen Vogel
A new drug taken for just a few months has prevented monkeys from rejecting transplanted kidneys. The drug, described in the June Nature Medicine, also lacks the side effects of...
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10 May 1999 | ScienceNOW

Novel Treatment for Lupus in Mice

by Michael Hagmann
Scientists have found a new approach to treating lupus, an autoimmune disease that ravages kidneys. Injecting specific protein snippets into mice halts and even undoes some of the damage, they...
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3 May 1999 | ScienceNOW

Liver Wins Immune System Reprieve

by Ayala Ochert
When viruses invade, the immune system typically adopts a slash-and-burn policy, rounding up viral particles and destroying infected cells. But according to a study in the current Science, when faced...
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