A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in immunology and related areas, from Faculty of 1000

A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in immunology and related areas, from Faculty of 1000

A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in oncology, from Faculty of 1000

A new exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art celebrates the slick design of old public health messages and pharmaceutical ads

A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in immunology and related areas, from Faculty of 1000

Bacteria may be able to exchange large molecules -- including those that confer antibiotic resistance -- via microscopic tubes, but some researchers are skeptical

A snapshot of the highest-F1000-ranked articles in immunology and related areas

A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in immunology, from Faculty of 1000

By Edyta Zielinska Auto-ups and -downs Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc / Visuals Unlimited, Inc The paper S. Tsai et al., “Reversal of autoimmunity by boosting memory-like autoregulatory T cells,” Immunity, 32:568-80, 2010. Free F1000 Evaluation The finding Autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis develop over many years and result in chronic diseases that flare and subside. While trying to kill the cells responsible for t

linkurl:1. Diabetes drug details unveiled;http://bit.ly/9UllVV Researchers uncovered the details of how a common diabetes treatment works -- by blocking the phosphorylation of a master regulator of fat development, thereby suppressing the activation of genes that promote insulin insensitivity -- providing clues that may help reduce side effects, such as weight gain. J.H. Choi et al., "Anti-diabetic drugs inhibit obesity-linked phosphorylation of PPARgamma by Cdk5," linkurl:__Nature,__;http:

By Edyta Zielinska WHY TRUST A REPORTER? What science writers are looking for and why it behooves you to answer their calls. here was a time when the public saw newspaper reporters as heroic figures. In those days, “Men wore hats and pounded away on the typewriter with two fingers,” says neuroscientist Richard Ransohoff, whose father was a beat reporter at the Cincinnati Enquirer and Post and Times-Star through the early 1960s. His father “kn

#1 T cell debate solved Mature T cells in the thymus are attracted to a molecule expressed by cells covering blood vessels, resolving a long standing puzzle of how cells escape into the body to fight infections. linkurl:(See our news story here.);http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/57375/ M.A. Zachariah, J.G. Cyster, "Neural crest-derived pericytes promote egress of mature thymocytes at the corticomedullary junction," linkurl:__Science,__;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/2041345