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How an Early Warning Radar Could Prevent Future Pandemics

Amos ZeebergandUndark | | 8 min read

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Science Falls Behind as Syphilis Stages Another Comeback

Bhargavi DuvvuriandUndark | | 6 min read

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RSV Vaccines That Work?

Rachael Moeller Gorman | | 10+ min read

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Q&A: What if Immune Cells Don’t Actually Detect Viruses and Bacteria?

Dan Robitzski | | 10+ min read

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In Vitro Malaria Sporozoite Production May Lead to Cheaper Vaccines

Katherine Irving | | 4 min read

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Monkeypox Virus Has Potential to Be Sexually Transmitted

Jennifer Zieba, PhD | | 4 min read

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Transmissible Tumors, 1909

Katherine Irving | | 2 min read

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How Chlamydia Guards Itself Against the Immune System

Natalia Mesa, PhD | | 4 min read

<em>Chlamydia</em> invades a host cell, forms a membrane-bound vacuole, or inclusion, and then modifies the protein composition of the structure’s membrane. If immune cells detect <em>Chlamydia</em> before it forms the inclusion, they trigger T cells to produce interferon-γ (IFN-γ), a powerful cytokine. IFN-γ activates the protein mysterin (also called RFN213), which attaches ubiquitin to the inclusion membrane, signaling the cell to destroy the inclusion’s contents by dumping them into a lysosome (left). C. trachomatis produces GarD, a protein that integrates into the inclusion membrane itself and somehow prevents mysterin from attaching ubiquitin, allowing the bacterium to evade immune destruction while continuing to multiply and eventually bursting from the cell (right).

Infographic: How Chlamydia Evades Immune Detection

Natalia Mesa, PhD | | 2 min read

3D medical illustration of peripheral blood cells: a lymphocyte (left) and a monocyte (right) surrounded by red blood cells.

PBMCs: Mononucleated and Multipurposed

Deanna MacNeil, PhD | | 4 min read

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Notable Science Quotes

The Scientist | | 2 min read

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What Happens When You Catch More than One Virus?

Alejandra Manjarrez, PhD | | 8 min read

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