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Telomeres and the Hayflick Limit: Your Cells Can Only Divide So Many Times

Telomeres and the Hayflick Limit: Your Cells Can Only Divide So Many Times

Telomeres and the Hayflick Limit: Your Cells Can Only Divide So Many Times Series: Longevity Science | Part: 4 of 7 Primary Tag: FRONTIER SCIENCE Keywords: telomeres, Hayflick limit, telomerase, Elizabeth Blackburn, cellular aging, replicative senescence The End Replication Problem To understand telomeres, you need to understand a fundamental problem with

CAR-T Therapy: Engineering Cancer Killers

CAR-T Therapy: Engineering Cancer Killers

CAR-T Therapy: Engineering Cancer Killers In 2012, a six-year-old girl named Emily Whitehead was dying of leukemia. She had relapsed twice after chemotherapy. There were no more standard options. Her doctors at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia tried something that had never worked before: they extracted her T

The Two Arms of Immunity: Fast and Slow, General and Specific

The Two Arms of Immunity: Fast and Slow, General and Specific

The Two Arms of Immunity: Fast and Slow, General and Specific Series: New Immunology | Part: 1 of 8 Primary Tag: FRONTIER SCIENCE Keywords: innate immunity, adaptive immunity, immune response, T cells, B cells, inflammation Innate Immunity: The First Responders Innate immunity is ancient. It exists in some form in every

How Your Immune System Learns: Evolution Running in Real Time

How Your Immune System Learns: Evolution Running in Real Time

How Your Immune System Learns: Evolution Running in Real Time Series: New Immunology | Part: 2 of 8 Primary Tag: FRONTIER SCIENCE Keywords: V(D)J recombination, clonal selection, somatic hypermutation, affinity maturation, immune memory The Generation of Diversity The core problem: you need antibodies (and T cell receptors) that can

The New Immunology

The New Immunology

The New Immunology Your Immune System Is Smarter Than You Think—And We're Only Now Learning Its Language The Series The Two Arms of Immunity: Fast and Slow, General and SpecificThe fundamental division in immune responseIdeasthesiaRyan CollisonHow Your Immune System Learns: Evolution Running in Real TimeIntroduction to immune

Trained Immunity: Memory Without Memory Cells

Trained Immunity: Memory Without Memory Cells

Trained Immunity: Memory Without Memory Cells Series: New Immunology | Part: 3 of 8 Primary Tag: FRONTIER SCIENCE Keywords: trained immunity, BCG vaccine, innate immune memory, epigenetics, monocytes, macrophages The Discovery The modern story of trained immunity begins with Mihai Netea at Radboud University in the Netherlands. In 2011, his team

Checkpoint Inhibitors: Releasing the Brakes on Cancer

Checkpoint Inhibitors: Releasing the Brakes on Cancer

Checkpoint Inhibitors: Releasing the Brakes on Cancer Series: New Immunology | Part: 4 of 8 Primary Tag: FRONTIER SCIENCE Keywords: checkpoint inhibitors, PD-1, CTLA-4, cancer immunotherapy, James Allison, Tasuku Honjo, Nobel Prize The Checkpoint Problem Your immune system can absolutely kill cancer cells. Cancer cells are mutated, abnormal, producing weird proteins.