Word: immunologist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...foreign genes into a mouse and observing the effect on the animal's own genes), the scientists, led by Baltimore, closed ranks. The junior researcher, Irish-born Margot O'Toole, was asked to give up her place in the lab. The senior scientist accused of misconduct, a gifted Brazilian immunologist named Thereza Imanishi-Kari, went on to win a prestigious appointment at nearby Tufts University...
...sign that an autoimmune attack has begun is the appearance in the bloodstream of antibodies to the pancreatic cells and, later, to insulin itself. For nine years a Joslin Center research team led by immunologist Dr. George Eisenbarth has been tracking the appearance of these antibodies in 10,000 close relatives of Type I diabetics. It is now possible for the Joslin team to predict which otherwise symptomless relatives are likely to develop the disease in three years' time. Last May the Joslin and two other medical centers launched a program to treat identified potential diabetics with an antirejection drug...
...unprecedented procedure was performed by two prominent physicians in Lyons: Dr. Jean-Louis Touraine, an immunologist at Edouard-Herriot Hospital, and Dr. Daniel Raudrant, an obstetrician at Hotel Dieu Hospital. The doctors wanted to treat David while he was still in his mother's womb because they thought if the procedure was done early, it would have better odds of succeeding. They took 7 cc of liquid, containing about 16 million immune cells from the liver and thymus of two aborted fetuses, and injected the material into David's umbilical cord. After he was born, David received an injection...
...highest risk group for the flu, and traditionally last on the list of those immunized, are older people living in close quarters in big-city nursing homes, said Paul StehrGreen, an immunologist with the CDC in Atlanta...
...these immune cells produce such diversity was elucidated during the mid- 1970s by Immunologist Susumu Tonegawa, now at M.I.T., who in 1987 was awarded the Nobel Prize for his achievement. Tonegawa proved that the B-cell genes that dictate the production of antibodies occur in distinct segments. These pieces, like cards in the hands of a Las Vegas dealer, are constantly and speedily shuffled into different combinations. Coupled with mutations that occur as B cells divide into plasma cells, such genes, in theory at least, could account for as many as 10 million antibody variations. Other scientists have shown that...