For those hoping for a new heart, liver, bone marrow or other organ, the wait for a compatible organ has always been part of the excruciating drama of transplantation. If...
In a study published in Nature Immunology, Stanford rheumatologist Connie Weyand, MD, PhD, and her colleagues have dug up a defect thought to lead to rheumatoid arthritis. It seems this...
...and of microbiology and immunology, have reanalyzed previously-published dengue patient data, discovering a key set of genes whose expression can predict who will suffer severe dengue. As explained by our...
...if they could help patients reframe their view of the treatment's side effects to lower their anxiety. Their findings appear today in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In...
After receiving a lung transplant, patients face the likely chance that their body’s immune system will reject the transplanted organ. Rejection can happen at any time due to a variety...
When the FDA announced in 2017 that it was approving an immunotherapy treatment for children with certain relapsed blood cancers, doctors and patients were pretty excited. That treatment, tisagenlecleucel (brand...
There's a theory in immunology, called the molecular mimicry hypothesis, that autoimmunity (where the immune system turns on the body's own tissues) is the result of mistaken identity: The immune...
...and immunology. When we talked, he shared his experiences in science, and reflected on how he remains positive and grounded in day-to-day life. Here's a closer look: When you came...
The aphorism "with age comes wisdom" is mostly true. But a new study in Cell Reports by Stanford immunologists Jorg Goronzy, MD, Connie Weyand, MD, and their colleagues here and...
...and immunology and a chief program officer of FAST. This fall, FAST added a second high school, James Lick High School, also part of the East Side Union High School...
...graduate student in immunology, told me. "It sounds really intimidating having to spend 13 or 14 Saturdays of your year at the high school. During the week you're stressed and...
...a Stanford graduate student in immunology, described. The guidance, Andrew Hill students told me, is welcome. "First-generation parents are motivating their kids to go to college, but we don't really...
We’re all born with a DNA sequence that encodes (in the form of genes) the very traits that make us, us — eye color, height, and even personality. We think...
...Middle East respiratory syndrome, and others. Dorothy Tovar, a Stanford graduate student in microbiology and immunology, is working to understand how these bats remain healthy while hosting so many viruses....
For the last several years, Stanford immunologist Mark Davis, PhD, has been pushing the immunology field to steer research away from a reliance on mice and toward humans. He recently...
Training the body's immune cells to seek out and fight cancer is a promising new approach in the fight against the disease. That's because immune cells are already generally equipped...
