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THAT'S SO HOT: The macrophage, an immune cell known for engulfing infected cells or pathogens, may also play a role in temperature regulation.Photo Researchers, David M. Phillips

Immune Heat

By Edyta Zielinska

Editor’s choice in immunology

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Switching the Bait

By Edyta Zielinska

Turning a standard technique into an unbiased screen for diagnostic biomarkers

Child gets oral dose of polio vaccine.Flickr, ramesh_lalwani

Is India Polio Free?

By Cristina Luiggi

This week will mark the one-year anniversary of the last polio case in the second-most populous country.

Wikimedia Commons, Thomas Lersch

Chimp Viruses for Human Vaccines

By Ruth Williams

An adenovirus isolated from chimpanzee feces proves more effective than human adenoviruses as a vaccine vector for hepatitis C.

istockphoto.com, Denis Kartavenko

Resolving Chronic Pain

By Claudia Sommer and Frank Birklein

The body’s own mechanism for dispersing the inflammatory reaction might lead to new treatments for chronic pain.

The assay setup used by the J. Paul Robinson lab at Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories to screen compounds for mitochondrial toxicity. Purdue University, Mark Simons

No Mo’ Slow Flow

By Jeffrey M. Perkel

Tools and tricks for high-throughput flow cytometry

A variegated butterfly bat (Glauconycteris variegata), one of the many bats captured by bat mammalogist DeeAnn Reeder during her most recent trip to South Sudan in the fall of 2011. Courtesy of DeeAnn Reeder

Bat Hunt

By Cristina Luiggi

For the past four years, Bucknell University mammalogist DeeAnn Reeder has been raising nets high into the darkened forest canopies of…

Infographic: Inflammation, Pain, and Resolvins View PDFs PDF Lucy reading-ikkanda

Inflammation, Pain, and Resolvins

By Claudia Sommer and Frank Birklein

Not all inflammation leads to pain. Despite widespread infection followed by fever, colds rarely cause pain. But when some cytokines…

Mav proteinsDr. Fajian Hou, Hui Zheng, Qiu-Xing Jiang, and Zhijian J. Chen, University of Texas, Southwestern

Prion Protectors

By Edyta Zielinska

Editor’s choice in immunology

The little epauletted fruit bat—this female crad­­ling her young—is one of the species DeeAnn Reeder and her team collected in South Sudan.DeeAnn Reeder

Bat Luck

By Cristina Luiggi

An intrepid researcher and her team battle the elements and bouts of misfortune to explore the biodiversity of a brand new African country.

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