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Reading and Writing the Immune System

August 5, 2021

What will be the next advance in immunology? Speculations on reading and writing the immune system from neuroscience Ph.D. candidate JJ Kim.

Jeong Jun Kim ⋅ Perspectives in Research Autoimmune Disease, biotechnology, immunology, immunotherapy ⋅

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Teaching About Vaccines — A Miracle of Modern Medicine

July 26, 2018

As an immunologist-to-be, few things frustrate me more than hearing of misinformed antivaccine sentiments. I have been of the opinion for some time now that education about vaccines should begin in high school to give students the tools to properly combat misinformation campaigns. Thus, when I learned that Johns Hopkins was looking for applicants to […]

Talia Henkle ⋅ A Day in the Life immunology, in the classroom, vaccines ⋅

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First Approval of Cancer Immunotherapy Based on Genetic Marker

June 29, 2017

Immunotherapy is rapidly becoming one of the cornerstones of treatment for several types of cancers, and pembrolizumab, a well-known humanized antibody against the checkpoint inhibitor programmed death 1 (PD-1), is again in the spotlight for new expanded use based on patient's genetic differences. In a first of its kind, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration […]

Adela Wu ⋅ Perspectives in Research Cancer, immunology ⋅

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