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In the Spotlight: Using bats to understand disease and affect policy

...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....

...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....

Stanford immunologist pushes field to shift its research focus from mice to humans

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...

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...

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Smuggling RNA into cells can activate the immune system to fight cancer

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...

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...

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Looking to the future of graduate biomedical education

After Kenneth Gibbs, Jr. earned his PhD in immunology from Stanford in 2010, he wanted to help as many people as possible. "I believed I could make a difference in...

After Kenneth Gibbs, Jr. earned his PhD in immunology from Stanford in 2010, he wanted to help as many people as possible. "I believed I could make a difference in...

Understanding the geography of triple negative breast cancer

Triple-negative breast cancer, also known as TNBC, is an invasive, aggressive and hard-to-treat beast. The cancer cells lack the expression of three cell surface molecules that are common targets for...

Triple-negative breast cancer, also known as TNBC, is an invasive, aggressive and hard-to-treat beast. The cancer cells lack the expression of three cell surface molecules that are common targets for...

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How to deliver gene therapy without a dangerous side effect: autoimmunity to the normal protein

Stanford neuroimmunologist Larry Steinman, MD, and his colleagues have demonstrated that gene therapy can be effective without causing a dangerous side effect common to all gene therapy: an autoimmune reaction...

Stanford neuroimmunologist Larry Steinman, MD, and his colleagues have demonstrated that gene therapy can be effective without causing a dangerous side effect common to all gene therapy: an autoimmune reaction...

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Short telomeres a hallmark of genetic cardiac disease, Stanford researchers find

...often ends in heart failure. Now microbiologist and immunologist Helen Blau, PhD, and Alex Chang, PhD, an instructor of cardiovascular medicine and of microbiology and immunology, have found that the...

...often ends in heart failure. Now microbiologist and immunologist Helen Blau, PhD, and Alex Chang, PhD, an instructor of cardiovascular medicine and of microbiology and immunology, have found that the...

Immune cell ratios predict shift to active tuberculosis, Stanford-led study finds

...symptoms and is not contagious. Researchers led by Yueh-hsiu Chien, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology; Purvesh Khatri, PhD, associate professor of medicine and of biomedical data science; and Roshni...

...symptoms and is not contagious. Researchers led by Yueh-hsiu Chien, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology; Purvesh Khatri, PhD, associate professor of medicine and of biomedical data science; and Roshni...

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How your cells can die: The good, the bad, and the leaky

...reached out to four Stanford researchers -- Jan Carette, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology; Denise Monack, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology; James Ferrell, MD, PhD, professor of...

...reached out to four Stanford researchers -- Jan Carette, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology; Denise Monack, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology; James Ferrell, MD, PhD, professor of...

New technology provides a better understanding of cells and their neighbors

...crowded and overlap,” said Nikolay Samusik, PhD, research scientist in microbiology and immunology, who shares first authorship of the paper with Yury Goltsev, PhD, a senior research scientist in the...

...crowded and overlap,” said Nikolay Samusik, PhD, research scientist in microbiology and immunology, who shares first authorship of the paper with Yury Goltsev, PhD, a senior research scientist in the...

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Improving domestic violence screening: A Q&A

...looked at how to improve screening for intimate partner violence at Stanford clinics. Now a San Francisco 49ers cheerleader, a clinical trials coordinator for Stanford immunology and rheumatology and a...

...looked at how to improve screening for intimate partner violence at Stanford clinics. Now a San Francisco 49ers cheerleader, a clinical trials coordinator for Stanford immunology and rheumatology and a...

Some gut bacteria protect against Salmonella, new research suggests

...differences among people,” said Denise Monack, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology. She thinks that new research, which discovered that a gut bacteria byproduct called propionate is protective against Salmonella...

...differences among people,” said Denise Monack, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology. She thinks that new research, which discovered that a gut bacteria byproduct called propionate is protective against Salmonella...

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Peering into reprogramming’s black box, Stanford researchers ID critical stem cell creation protein

...have been discovered any other way,' said Helen Blau, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology. 'It appears within two hours of the initiation of reprogramming, and then it’s gone. But...

...have been discovered any other way,' said Helen Blau, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology. 'It appears within two hours of the initiation of reprogramming, and then it’s gone. But...

MS1 and done: Wrapping up my first year of medical school

...world - where I landed firmly on my feet. This year I learned a lot of science: anatomy, biochemistry, immunology, microbiology, embryology, histology, and more. I also learned how to...

...world - where I landed firmly on my feet. This year I learned a lot of science: anatomy, biochemistry, immunology, microbiology, embryology, histology, and more. I also learned how to...

Why nicotine-mimicking molecules might make great anti-inflammatory drugs for MS, RA, gout and more

Until the day that science identifies the precise genetic factors that allow some of us to live to be 100 despite the immensely damaging effects of inhaling the particulate byproducts...

Until the day that science identifies the precise genetic factors that allow some of us to live to be 100 despite the immensely damaging effects of inhaling the particulate byproducts...