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STAT+: Cancer therapy’s new ‘gold rush’:  bispecific antibodies that hit key combination of targets

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Immune checkpoint inhibitors, drugs that can help make the immune system recognize and destroy cancer more aggressively, are one of the most important medicines in cancer treatment today.

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Opinion: I helped declare the U.S. measles-free in 2000. I’m dismayed by where we are now

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The immunization seminar during my residency was dry and uninspiring. I neglected to have my first child vaccinated against chickenpox; the scars are still present. I started my medical career in the early 1990s as a vaccine nihilist.

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STAT+: Dreams of cancer vaccines are becoming more real. Here are 9 scientists making it happen 

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But many other modes of immunotherapy for cancer were approved first — checkpoint blockade drugs like Keytruda and engineered immune cell therapies like Yescarta. Cancer vaccines may also be able to help train the immune system to recognize and kill cancers related to viruses like HPV.

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Opinion: The next frontier in biomedicine: AI models of the human immune system

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If the Covid-19 pandemic has shown us one thing, it is how little we really know about how the human immune system works. Decoding and harnessing the power of the human immune system is one of the great frontiers of biomedicine.

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Pandemic-related immunity gap in kids explains surge of respiratory infections in children in China, says WHO

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The evidence presented to the WHO team pointed to what’s sometimes called an immunity gap that was created by the pandemic. But a rapidly organized meeting Thursday between the World Health Organization and health officials in China assuaged much of that concern.

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Could long Covid’s signs of immune dysregulation in the blood lead to a diagnostic test?

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New research published Thursday in Science has identified proteins present in the blood of people with long Covid that could point the way to a much-needed diagnostic test and possibly to future therapeutic targets.

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AstraZeneca showcases innovation in infectious disease protection at ESCMID Global 2025

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April 8, 2025: “AstraZeneca will share new data across its Vaccines & Immune Therapies portfolio at the 2025 Congress of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID Global 2025) in Vienna, Austria, from 11-15 April 2025. There are millions of methicillin-resistant S. Infections caused by K.

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