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SciShots: Tracking immune cells’ digestion

04.03.2023

Scientists are watching cells swallow microscopic beads in the hopes of better understanding the autoimmune disorder rheumatoid arthritis 

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Look in the labs | Immunology

09.14.2022

What makes the human immune system healthy, and what goes wrong in disease?

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Out of Balance | Sarah’s experience with multiple myeloma

06.08.2022

Sarah Kaufmann-Fink was diagnosed with cancer as a college student. 17 years and one relapse later, she’s pushing for more research.

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Science in Sixty | Greg Szeto

06.07.2022

Greg Szeto Ph.D., Associate Investigator at The Allen Institute for Immunology, has a passion for immunology, virology, bioengineering, computer...

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A new open-access portal for human immunology data and tools

06.01.2022

The Human Immune System Explorer offers an inside view into ongoing research on human health and disease

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Q&A with the Allen Institute for Immunology’s first employee

09.11.2021

Ernie Coffey started his career in science with a bang. It was 1997 and he landed a job at one of the institutes participating in the sequencing of...

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Lab Notes | Fire Inside: The quest to understand and prevent rheumatoid arthritis

05.17.2021

In the early '80s, Linda Sloate was a 30-year old mom raising three little kids when she became one of an estimated 20 million people worldwide living...

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New technique explores the ins and outs of our immune cells

05.06.2021

Method that captures 3 different characteristics of individual human cells at once can shed light on aging and disease.

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3 immune mysteries of COVID-19 — and 1 big success story

01.12.2021

The pandemic has revealed how much we really don’t know about our own immune systems, experts say

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New study aims to answer pressing COVID-19 question: Why do some die while others don’t even know they are sick?

12.21.2020

Seattle-area research organizations team up for a deep dive into patients’ immune responses to the novel coronavirus; results could contribute to...

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Q&A with a bioinformatics expert on the challenges of studying human immunology

09.28.2020

Xiaojun Li shares the career path that brought him to become Director of Bioinformatics at the Allen Institute for Immunology, and why he’s excited...

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5 cool things your immune system can do

08.11.2020

Hack evolution, keep lifelong exposure records and more — immunologists share some of the far-out cellular feats happening in your body on a regular...

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Science Matters | Redefining the immune system

04.29.2020

"This is simply one of the best opportunities on the planet to really redefine how the immune system will be characterized in the future." Tom Bumol,...

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‘For most of us, the immune system does the impossible’: Q&A with an immunology expert

04.14.2020

It’s hard to see a bright side to the current coronavirus pandemic. But if you ask Allen Institute immunologist Troy Torgerson, M.D., Ph.D., how an...

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Troy Torgerson | Transforming outcomes for patients

12.19.2019

See how Troy Torgerson, Director of Experimental Immunology at the Allen Institute for Immunology, is leading cross-disciplinary teams in molecular...

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Out of Balance | Maria’s journey with melanoma

11.11.2019

Maria Melvin can credit a dress for catching her cancer early.

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Out of Balance | Alyssa’s life with Crohn’s disease

05.14.2019

Ever since Alyssa Clements can remember, she’s wanted to be a doctor. Her father is a chiropractor in south New Jersey, and his business partner was...

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Q&A: A former experimental psychologist with a passion for data governance

05.03.2019

Scientists everywhere are struggling with data. Paul Meijer, Ph.D., Director of Software Development at the newly launched Allen Institute for...

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Out of Balance | Tom Bumol’s life after lymphoma

02.26.2019

What happens when an immunologist gets a life-threatening, immune-related disease? In Bumol’s case, he doubles down on his research.

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Peter Skene | Transforming outcomes for patients

02.03.2019

See how Peter Skene, director of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the Allen Institute for Immunology is working to answer this question and...

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