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T Cells

Twenty Years And Counting

Tom Judson | Posted 04.28.2013 | Gay Voices
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Gay in the 90s, Gay in the 1990s, HIV Meds, HIV Medications, Hiv, Living With Hiv, T-Cell Count, T-Cells, Gay Voices News
Tom Judson

I didn't expect to live long enough to write this when, 20 years ago today, my doctor called to tell me that my HIV test had come back positive. The news hit me like a bomb; hyperbole or not, back then it was still pretty much considered a death sentence.

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Catherine Pearson

Are Doctors On To A Cure For Leukemia?

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 12.10.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Cancer Treatment, T Cells Cancer, Leukemia Treatment, Cancer Cure, Leukemia, Leukemia Cure, Video, Cancer, T Cells, T Cell Therapy, T Cell Cancer, Healthy Living News

When 7-year-old Emma Whitehead's leukemia returned a second time, her prospects were not good. She had been battling the disease for more than a y...

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Cells Executing Sophisticated Search Strategies (and How Our Physicist Friends Helped Us Learn About It)

James A. Shapiro | Posted 07.31.2012 | Science
Read More: Amoebae, Physicists, Larry Moran, Slime Mold, Biomimetic Algorithms, Hokkaido University, Generalized Lévy Walk, Physarum Polycephalum, T-Cells, Science News
James A. Shapiro

In studying and analyzing the computational feats of living organisms, we will learn how networks that are far more sophisticated than our own operate to solve problems.

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Our Predatory T Cells

Andrea J. Liu | Posted 07.31.2012 | Science
Read More: T Cells Immune System, T Cells Parasites, T Cells Levy Walks, T Cells, T Cells Movement, T Cells Steps, Drunken Sailor Model, T Cells Migration, T Cell Movement Patterns, Science News
Andrea J. Liu

Can we help T cells, or hinder pathogens or cancer cells, by fiddling with their random walk statistics? With so much that remains to be understood, one thing is clear -- it will take the combined efforts of scientists to answer these questions.

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'Engineered' Cells Hunt, Kill AIDS Virus In Provocative New Study

The Huffington Post | Melissa Cronin, David Freeman | Posted 04.16.2012 | Science
Read More: Video, Ucla, Stem Cells, Aids, AIDS Virus, Hiv, T Cells, Genetic Engineering, Science News

Can stem cells cure AIDS? Not yet. But a provocative new study shows that human stem cells can be genetically engineered to attack living cells infect...

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