August 2013: The Immune System: When to Spur It On and When to Hold It Back
Aug 22, 2013•25 min
Episode description
How drug treatment may be able to help the body’s own immune system to defeat cancerous tumors, with Ira Mellman (0:00) (Immunity special issue on cancer immunotherapy). How improved understanding of the immune system's reaction to food would help reduce the epidemic of food allergies, with Hugh Sampson (13:45) (Trends in Immunology). Plus, sample a selection of the hottest new papers from Cell Press (25:27).
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