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...single drug, derived from a Scandinavian soil sample, provided a stunning breakthrough in the effort to tame the immune system. Cyclosporine targets the killer T cells -- the cellular commandos that seek out alien tissues after other defenders have marked them for elimination. Within a few years of the drug's introduction, first-year survival rates for kidney recipients jumped from 50% to over 80%. Only a handful of drugs have had such an impact on the history of medicine...
...extraordinary advances in just the past decade in understanding what goes wrong in autoimmune disorders such as Graves' disease. Their discoveries, driven in part by the intensive study of the AIDS epidemic, reveal that the immune system is not a single straightforward defense system but many elaborate systems whose cellular members constantly patrol the body looking for friends and challenging foes. "The immune system is very like the brain -- it has to recognize everything," says Dr. Howard Weiner, associate professor of neurology at the Harvard Medical School. "Every virus, every piece of dust, your body has to recognize as foreign...
...members of a rival drug gang shot Chavez in the jaw and nearly blinded him three weeks ago, his bodyguards staged a violent takeover of the prison; 18 people died. Once in control of the complex, Chavez continued to make drug deals from his cell, which was outfitted with cellular phones and a fax machine. Though state police ringed the prison, he managed to bring in doctors and undergo surgery for his wounds...
...EQRF, a 200,000 square foot building, will provide space for the Departments of Genetics, Neurobiology, Anatomy and Cellular Biology, and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, as well as the Center for Blood Research...
Exercising his only option, Goodenough--who is currently Takeda professor of anatomy and cellular biology at the Medical School--enrolled in a Ph.D. program in the anatomy department, and, except for a short sojourn as a post-doctoral candidate at University of California at San Francisco, he's been at Harvard ever since...