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Impeding PD-1
Megan Scudellari | Oct 1, 2008 | 4 min read
The discovery that blocking an inhibitory immune receptor restores T cell function in HIV sheds light on immune dysfunction.
Targeting Type 1 Diabetes
Lawrence Steinman | May 31, 2016 | 1 min read
Blocking the activation of T cells in response to proinsulin could help quell the autoimmune attack in the pancreas.
FDA's 1st Chief Scientist speaks
Bob Grant | Apr 15, 2008 | 2 min read
Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration linkurl:named;http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2008/NEW01816.html cancer biologist linkurl:Frank Torti;http://www1.wfubmc.edu/canbio/Faculty/Torti+F.htm as the agency's first ever Chief Scientist. Torti, who is also the director of Wake Forest's linkurl:Comprehensive Cancer Center,;http://www1.wfubmc.edu/cancer/ will leave North Carolina and begin work early next month at the FDA. The researcher and clinician took time to talk with me and share hi
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How a Specific Gut Bacterium May Cause Type 1 Diabetes
Dan Robitzski | Aug 25, 2022 | 5 min read
A bacterium that produces an insulin-like peptide can give mice type 1 diabetes, and infection with the microbe seems to predict the onset of the disease in humans, a study finds.
Peer-review-less grants, round 1
Bob Grant | Oct 18, 2009 | 2 min read
University College London (UCL), which last year linkurl:announced;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55282/ plans to award unorthodox research grants without robust peer review, deadlines, directives, or milestones, has linkurl:chosen;http://www.ucl.ac.uk/media/library/VentureLane its first awardee -- a biochemist who will study the evolutionary switch from simple to more complex cellular structures. The researcher, linkurl:Nick Lane,;http://www.nick-lane.net/index.html was deemed worth
1st ever retraction for JEB
Elie Dolgin | Nov 18, 2008 | 3 min read
The __Journal of Experimental Biology__ (JEB) has issued the first retraction in its 85 year history, the journal reported in an linkurl:editorial;http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/full/211/23/3651 and a linkurl:retraction;http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/full/211/23/3764 notice in its December 1 issue. Although the authors' institution told JEB their reuse of images was a careless error, the journal's editor-in-chief called it a case of outright fraud. The linkurl:retracted paper;http
Week in Review: October 28–November 1
Tracy Vence | Nov 1, 2013 | 3 min read
Neuronal DNA variation; male hormone sparks mosquito egg production; pulvinar neurons aid primate snake detection; spiders and cryptic female choice
1st cancer vaccine approved in Russia
Alla Katsnelson | Apr 8, 2008 | 2 min read
A New York-based biotech company announced today (April 8) that it has received approval for the first linkurl:therapeutic cancer vaccine;http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/18859/ -- in Russia. It is the first approval by a regulatory body of a cancer immunotherapy. The therapy's approval in Russia won't in itself boost its chances for approval in the US or the EU, or improve the prospects of other cancer vaccines that are in the biotech pipeline, Ren Benjamin, senior biotech analyst
NIH to act on conflicts within 1 year
Bob Grant | Dec 4, 2008 | 2 min read
The National Institutes of Health may change its regulations for managing financial conflict of interest among extramural grantees within 12 months, the acting director of the NIH said today (Dec. 5). "In roughly six months to a year, we're going to have action on this," NIH's acting director linkurl:Raynard Kington;http://www.nih.gov/about/director/directorbio.htm told an linkurl:advisory committee,;http://acd.od.nih.gov/ adding that there may be legislative action forcing the NIH to alter its
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Infographic: Understanding CAR-T vs TCR Approaches
Danielle Gerhard, PhD | Mar 15, 2024 | 3 min read
Living drugs get a boost from emerging engineering strategies that focus on safety and specificity.

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