Scientists identify DNA that regulates antibody production
When foreign invaders trip the immune system’s alarm, antibodies need to be specially sculpted to attack them head on. New research now shows that gene segments called enhancers control the reshuffling...
View ArticleTo survive, a parasite mixes and matches its disguises, study suggests
A detailed look at the African sleeping sickness parasite’s strategy for evading its hosts’ immune systems revealed that the blood parasites assume a surprising diversity of protein coat disguises. In...
View ArticleRockefeller’s newest faculty member investigates how antibodies are made
Gabriel Victora, an immunologist who studies the processes by which the immune system refines its response to an infection, will establish the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics in September of 2016...
View ArticleStudy suggests new way to help the immune system fight off sleeping sickness...
There are currently few treatments for the disease, and those that exist have substantial side effects. A new study reveals a method, involving epigenetic mechanisms, that causes the African sleeping...
View ArticleRockefeller graduate Monica Mugnier wins 2016 NIH Early Independence Award
A 2016 graduate of Rockefeller’s Ph.D. program, Mugnier is one of 16 junior scientists across the country to receive an Early Independence Award. The award, which is given as a five-year grant of up to...
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