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The Missing Link?
I recently read a Nature Immunology article by Denzel et al. on how basophils enhance humoral immunological memory by inducing B cell proliferation and robust and specific antibody responses in a mous… more →
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Grades for Behavior
wrote 6 months ago: Gamble and Gamble discuss that boys and girls are sent different messages in the classroom (Gamble, … more →
Homo floresiensis = Hobbit
wrote 8 months ago: I just read this really cool article about the new hominid skull discovered in 2003 that may in fact … more →
The Missing Link?
wrote 1 year ago: I recently read a Nature Immunology article by Denzel et al. on how basophils enhance humoral immuno … more →
Draper et al. shows that viral-vector based vaccine can produce a robust antibody response
wrote 1 year ago: Simon Draper and his colleagues at Oxford have shown that high-titer antibody responses can be achie … more →
THE MILKY WAY GALAXY IS GOING TO BLOW!!!
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wrote 1 year ago: OK so I am exaggerating with my heading a tiny bit. None-the-less this short article from the journa … more →
Skeeters and DEET
wrote 1 year ago: Apparently mosquitoes may not be afraid of DEET per se, but, rather, DEET just covers up the lactic … more →
Antibodies against DBP inhibit erythrocyte invasion by Plasmodium vivax
wrote 1 year ago: Brian Grimberg, a member of Chris King’s group at Case Western, published a paper in PLoS Medi … more →
The RTS,S/ASO2D vaccine tested on infants in Mozambique, Alonso et al., Lancet 2007
wrote 2 years ago: The results of the phase I/IIb trial of GSK’s RTS,S/AS02 malaria vaccine have been published in Lanc … more →
Plasmodium falciparum ookinetes require mosquito midgut chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans for cell invasion (PNAS), Dinglasan et al.
wrote 2 years ago: This is a recent paper from the same group that demonstrated that disruption of Anopheles gambiae am … more →
Disruption of Plasmodium falciparum development by antibodies against a conserved mosquito midgut antigen (PNAS), Rhoel Dinglasan et. al.
wrote 2 years ago: I am starting to look at the recent work of the malaria researchers at Johns Hopkins in anticipation … more →
Kinyanjui et al. (from the Malaria Journal) IgG antibody responses to Plasmodium falciparum merozoite antigens in Kenyan children have a short half-life.
wrote 2 years ago: The human antibody response to malaria has been investigated by many research groups over the last f … more →
