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For more on this topic, see the eBriefing Charge and Release: Electrostatics and Thermal Regulation in Smart Materials Design.
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.
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.
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.