Immunology at 2000

Immunology at the crossroads

tell us stories that live in our minds long after we read their words. After 20 years of training some 200 graduate students, I can report some progress in convincing editors that properly trained scientists can do the job of reporting on science for general readers. However—and this is a big however— editors still insist that these scientists must, no matter what their qualification in science...

Immunology: Keeping mother at bay

Like its better-known polymorphic relatives, HLA-G, a relatively unpolymorphic class I MHC molecule expressed by fostal trophoblast cells, binds short peptides with a defined sequence motif; HLA-G may play an important role in maternal tolerance to a fostus.

UMass at TDT 2000

We had two thrusts to our research, neither of which was ready to be deployed in this evaluation. We report here on the results from the training data, in all cases explored within the link detection task. In the first direction, we looked more carefully at score normalization across different languages and media types. We found that we could improve results noticeably though not substantially ...

Human tumor immunology at the molecular divide.

Human studies at JEM: Immunology and beyond

The Rockefeller University Press $30.00 J. Exp. Med. 2016 Vol. 213 No. 4 467–468 www.jem.org/cgi/doi/10.1084/jem.20160211 467 Since its inception in 1896, The Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM) has aimed to publish outstanding and enduring studies in medical biology, with an emphasis on pathogenesis (Welch, 1896). The founding editors and their successors have strived to provide a prestigio...