Reinfection Not Likely; Antibodies, Memory T Cells, and B Cells Contribute To Immunity

Can You Get Covid-19 Again?  It's Very Unlikely, Experts Say by Apoorva Mandavilli.  The New York Times.  July 22, 2020.

Turbocharing The Body's Immune System To Fight Cancer

Setting The Body's 'Serial Killers' Loose On Cancer by Andrew Pollack.  The New York Times.  August 1, 2016. 

Immunotherapy Offers Hope To Cancer Patients, But Not Certainy

Immunotherapy Offers Hope To A Cancer Patient, But No Certainty by Matt Richtel.  The New York Times.  July 31, 2016

Grass-Roots Response To Immune System Epidemic--Patients Infect Themselves With Gastrointestinal Worms

The Parasite Underground by Moises Velasquez-Manoff.  The New York Times.  June 16, 2016. 

Comprehensive Screening Of Virus Exposure Could Help Identify Hidden And new Viral Infections

Cheap Blood Test Reveals Every Virus You've Ever Been Exposed To by Jessica Hamzelou.  New Scientist.  June 4, 2015. 

Immunotherapy Becomes Established Along With Surgery, Radiation, And Chemotherapy As Cancer Fighting Tool; Genetic Tools Can Predict Effectiveness

New Immunotherapy Drug Outperforms Chemotherapy For A Form Of Lung Cancer by Lenny Bernstein.  May 29, 2015. 

Immune Therapy Drugs Continue To Show Meaningful Results In Cancer Treatment

Merck Cancer Drug Shines Against Skin, Lung Cancer by Matthew Herper.  Forbes.  April 19, 2015. 

Fat Found To Produce The First Line Of Immune Response

Could Fat Cells Help Protect Us Against Infection?  by Honor Whiteman.  Medical News Today.  January 4, 2014.

Immunotherapy For Cancer

Cancer's Super-Survivors by Ron Winslow.  The Wall Street Journal.  December 4, 2014.

Cycles Of Fasting Found To Trigger Stem Cell Regeneration of New Immune Cells

Prolonged Fasting 'Re-Boots' Immune System by Catharine Paddock.  Medical News Today.  June 6, 2014.

Behavioral Immune System Supplements Physical Immune System To Avoid Disease But Also Contributes to Prejudice

Do I Make You Uncomfortable?  by Rick Chillot.  Psychology Today.  November 11, 2013.  Complete article available in the physical, newsstand copy of the magazine.  November 2013.

Chillot highlights the impact of the role of a behavioral immune system as a supplement to the body's physical immune system.  This behavioral system "tends toward oversensitivity---which is why we might be more averse to practically anyone who strikes us as anomalous."  The implications of this system for violence, prejudice, fear of the "other," patterns of mobility, etc are obvious and fascinating

A Lasting Flu Virus Vaccine?

Scientists Move Closer to a Lasting Flu Vaccine by Carl Zimmer.  The New York Times.  October 30, 2012.

The basic obstacle to a lasting flu vaccine is that immune system's B and T cells must learn how to develop a specific response to the unique characteristics of the flu prevalent for the season.  To circumvent that problem scientists at Oxford University are developing a T cell-based  flu vaccine that targets parts of the virus that change little from year to year.  Other researchers are focusing on antibody-based broad-spectrum flu vaccine.  They have discovered that certain antibodies can attach to the flu virus protein in a variety of locations thus facilitating the search for a long-lasting flu vaccine.