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  • The Trouble with Dengue

    Scott Halstead, research director of the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative, explains how global urbanization is promoting the spread of dengue virus and describes challenges to vaccine development.

    For more on this topic, see the eBriefing Dengue, Meningococcal, and Pneumococcal Vaccines: Strategies for Developing Countries.

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    The Dendritic Cell

    Ralph Steinman received the 2007 Lasker Award in honor of his discovery of the dendritic cell, a critical component of the immune response. Here he describes his finding and its ongoing implications for research into cancer and immunology.

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    October 2, 2009

    Cancer Vaccines

    As University of Pittsburgh immunologist Olivera Finn explains, targeted immunotherapy against cancer has shown encouraging results in recent years, and could become a powerful tool when combined with personalized medicine.

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    Letting the Data Speak

    With technologies like GPS, gene chips, and the Internet, we are awash in data. As Columbia University computer scientist Tony Jebara describes, extracting useful information from it all is the goal of the new field of machine learning.

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