From Berlin to Yerkes
Yerkes immunologist Guido Silvestri and colleagues have a paper in PLOS Pathogens shedding light on the still singular example of Timothy Brown, aka “the Berlin patient”, the only human cured of HIV.
HIV vaccine insight via Rwanda
Rebuilding a shattered society is compatible with HIV vaccine research
Cardiac cell therapy: three papers at a glance
Cardiac cell therapy sounds like a promising idea: use the patients’ own cells to enhance healing or even regenerate the damaged heart muscle. Doctors have taken up the promise, testing it in clinical trials involving thousands of patients. But a basic problem facing the field is this: naked cells don’t appear to stay in the […]
Alternative antibody architecture
The complex genomic apparatus for making lampreys’ antibody-like receptors
The age of blood
Investigating how long blood can be stored before the benefit of transfusion is compromised
PTH for stroke: stem cells lite
Spur the body’s regenerative agents to emerge from the bone marrow
Divide and conquer vs lung cancer
Biomarkers that can predict whether doctors will see a response with common chemotherapy drugs vs lung cancer
What are exosomes?
Tiny virus-like bubbles containing micro RNA, potentially carrying heart-healing factors