73 episodes
Immune Vincent Racaniello
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4.8 • 251 Ratings
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A podcast about the body's defenders against disease.
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Big macs
Immune reveals the total mass (1.2kg), number (1.8 trillion), and distribution of immune cells in the human body, with macrophages contributing nearly 50% of the total cellular mass.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cynthia Leifer, and Brianne Barker
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Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Immune cells in the human body (PNAS) Letters read on Immune 73 Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks! Music by Steve Neal.
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After dark in the library with Ellen Rothenberg
From Cornell University in Ithaca New York, Vincent and Cindy meet with Ellen Rothenberg to review her career in science, starting with work on retroviruses to unraveling transcriptional networks underlying T-cell development and signaling.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Cynthia Leifer
Guest: Ellen Rothenberg
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Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Synthesis of infectious DNA of murine leukaemia virus (Nature) Runx factors launch T cell and innate lymphoid programs (Nat Immunol) Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks! Music by Steve Neal.
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Can parasitic worms prevent pandemics?
Immune explains how, in a mouse model of roundworm infection with Nippostrongylus brasiliensis, exposure to lung-migrating helminths protects mice against SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Hosts: Cynthia Leifer, Stephanie Langel, and Brianne Barker
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Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Helminth protects against murine SARS-CoV-2 infection (Sci Immunol) Pandemic spared Africa (ScienceInsider) Letters read on Immune 71 Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks! Music by Steve Neal.
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Immunology of picky eating
Immune explains how mast cells, IgE antibody, and the brain collaborate to promote avoidance of certain foods to evade allergic responses.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cynthia Leifer, and Brianne Barker
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Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Mast cells and immune avoidance behavior (Nature) Immune sensing of food allergens promotes avoidance (Nature) Immunology that underlies picky eating (Nature) Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks! Music by Steve Neal.
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Lung cancer and retroviruses
Kevin joins Immune to discuss his work showing that antibodies against endogenous retroviruses promote immunotherapy of lung cancer.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cynthia Leifer, Steph Langel, and Brianne Barker
Guest: Kevin Ng
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Sins and blessings of immunity
Immune discusses immunological imprinting, also called original antigenic sin, in the context of infection with SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cynthia Leifer, and Steph Langel
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MicrobeTV Discord Server Immunological imprinting (Immunity) COVID-19 vaccine imprinting (bioRxiv) Original antigenic sin (J Inf Dis) Are competition (LJII) Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks! Music by Steve Neal.
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Customer Reviews
Great podcast
Only wish episodes were more frequent
Hello Immune Generals
I am thrilled to have found your podcast. This is exactly what a basic immunology master turned a full time wife and mom in chief needs in her life. Thank you, thank you!
No episode on Li-Meng Yan
Also, that the platypus would be considered a potential vector for COVID *evolution* is pathetic. Transmission? MAYBE. But it is an endangered species! Do you understand the Wright/Fischer maths on population genetics? There are no such things as “infinite pangolins” ...
it’s as if the institutions of science are terminally politicized or have such overinflated egos as to be exhibiting some kind of institutional meningitis. Absolutely pathetic. Between these 3 things — 1️⃣ lack of *real discussion* on Li-Meng Yan 2️⃣ pangolins as inpossibly endangered vectors and 3️⃣ lack of coverage on the importance of “micro-zinc” or bioavailable zinc — modern science and esp. health research has lost all credibility. I have looked at Yan’s research and it is unbelievable how her work has been smeared. There are serious problems in “peer review” and related processes that science can just defame her and trash her research in mainstream media. PATHETIC