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First Successful Test for an AIDS Vaccine

by Aalok Mehta

An experimental vaccine protected a modest percentage of people from HIV infection, the first-ever successful results from a vaccine against the virus that causes AIDS.

Immune System Acts as Bellwether for Diseases
Column

Immune System Acts as Bellwether for Diseases

by Ralph Steinman, M.D.,

Two exciting strands of research promote the use of the immune system in medical prognosis.

Immune Attack
News

Immune Attack

The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) is offering a free download of Immune Attack, a video game that introduces basic concepts of human immunology.  Immune Attack is an adventure in a molecular world. A person with a malfunctioning immune system needs the player to pilot a nanobot to find the proteins, chemical signals and cells required to fight a bacterial infection

Students, teachers, and parents may also want to visit the Dana Foundation’s  BrainyKids Online and  Immunology Source Book.

FAS is a 64 year old science policy organization that counts 70 Nobel laureates on its Board of Sponsors. For more information visit www.fas.org.

News

Immunologist Homes in on Cancer

by Ben Mauk

James P. Allison has spent much of his career making a case for moving immunologists into the mainstream of cancer therapy. Now drugs that spur the immune system to build defenses against cancers are in promising human trials.

The Dana Sourcebook of Immunology
Free Textbook

The Dana Sourcebook of Immunology

This resource for secondary and post-secondary teachers and students offers an overview of the many advances researchers are making in the study of our immune system. Request a free set for the classroom or view the entire textbook and its accompanying workbook online.

A Web of Challenges

The New York Academy of Sciences

A New York Academy of Sciences e-brifing on human immunology and patient-based research.

Resistance

Resistance

The Human Struggle Against Infection

by Norbert Gaulde
Translation by Streven Rendall

November 2006

Immunologist Norbert Gualde explores the history of epidemics, the emergence of new diseases and the return of old ones thought conquered.

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