This story is Part II a series of installments that explores the promise, challenges and future of mRNA. The first piece focused on the plusses and minuses of "lipid nanoparticles,"...
This is Part I in a series that will explore the promise, challenges and future of mRNA. Let's count our blessings. The COVID-19 pandemic, from which we're still struggling to...
A few weeks back, my partner and I attended a wedding where, it turns out, love wasn't the only thing in the air. Within 36 hours, a dozen attendees reported...
Like the Roadrunner outwitting Wile E. Coyote, SARS-CoV-2 (the infectious virus responsible for COVID-19) keeps mutating, generating new variants that can slip from the grip of a well-trained immune system...
...premise that Wah Chiu, PhD, a professor of microbiology and immunology and of bioengineering, and Christopher Barnes, PhD, assistant professor of biology, are capitalizing on to understand how viruses, such as SARS-CoV-2...
...seen with the mass spectrometer. A toxic mystery In January, Geier joined the lab of Manuel Amieva, MD, professor of pediatrics and of microbiology and immunology, swapping mussels for the...
What if the one-size-fits all approach to treating pain could be abandoned in favor of non-addictive drugs and other therapies as individualized as the way each patient experiences pain? What...
Jeffrey Glenn, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and of microbiology and immunology, is on a mission to de-fang COVID-19 and prepare the world for future viral threats. To see this...
...of microbiology and immunology, and a former president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Many times, one of those life forms is a virus or bacteria that uses humans...
...Mark Davis transformed tonsils into immunology labs in a dish, aiding research to develop vaccines for COVID-19, the flu and other diseases. Image by Mattia Ascenz No. 4: How to...
...exactly how it causes the acute respiratory distress that leaves some sufferers gasping for air. Now researchers at Stanford Medicine, including former instructor of allergy and immunology, Ivan Lee, MD,...
Many (many) years ago, as a budding cancer biology graduate student, I and my fellow first years attended a weeklong training program in Colorado to learn what cancer looks like...
It's diabolical, and so clever. Recent research by cancer biologist Wendy Fantl, PhD, and immunologist and cancer biologist Veronica Gonzalez, PhD, shows that ovarian tumors thrive by convincing nearby immune...
As the Delta variant drives a nationwide surge in COVID-19 cases, the importance of vaccines in preventing illness and death from the disease has become increasingly clear. That's why Stanford...
Future historians will mark the development of the two-dose mRNA vaccines as a turning point in our global fight against COVID-19. The vaccines, which use an oily coating of nanoparticles...
Even cells need a rest sometimes. In 2017, I had the privilege of writing about what was then a relatively new therapy for leukemia called CAR-T cell therapy. The therapy...
