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Abbie Smith is a graduate student studying the molecular and biochemical evolution of HIV within patients and within populations. She also studies epigenetic control of ERVs.

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What do you get when you cross HIV-1 with VSV with mouse antibodies with human CD3 and CD137 with a cancer patients T-cells?

Category: Cancer

A treatment for cancer. Scientists are crazy, and its saving lives :)

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[insert generic Draco Malfoy joke here]

Category: Immunology

A bunch of folks have emailed me about this article, being heavily pimped in pop media:Broad-Spectrum Antiviral TherapeuticsBeing SciBlogs resident Debbie Downer, it was good to see Ive trained you all well. The most common comment people emailed along with...

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Evolution, Immunology, and Vaccines: Tomato, Tomahto, Tomater!

Category: Evolution

ERV talkin about evilution and vaccines!

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Antibodies: Evolution in action II

Category: Evolution

Gene duplication = LOTS AND LOTS OF ANTIBODIES!!! YAY!!

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Q&A: Pregnant mothers vs unvaccinated kids

Category: Immunology

EMAIL! Dear ERV-- If I work with kids who are not immunized and I get pregnant, is my fetus at risk? This is a question I got from an audience member post-FreeOK, and it was too good not to share...

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Antibodies: Evolution in action

Category: Evolution

Gene duplication and divergence--> Lots of different shapes of antibody butts.

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Super Awesome influenza antibodies: Slightly more helpful than Super Awesome HIV antibodies

Category: Vaccines

MEDIA! Y U NO LISTEN TO THE SCIENTISTS YOU INTERVIEW??

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HIV-1 CTL Vaccine: Did HIV-1 steal Harry Potters Invisibility Cloak?

Category: HIV/AIDS

If you cant see your target, you cant kill it...

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Viruses and Prostate Cancer

Category: Cancer

Not what you think ;)

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A little Ni2+ to tickle your TLR4

Category: Immunology

Conceptually, its not excessively hard to understand how we develop allergies-- Our bodies generate an inappropriate immune response to a protein that wouldnt otherwise cause us any harm, whether its tree pollen or dust mites or peanut proteins. But whats...

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