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This Focus on natural killer cells aims to highlight what is currently known and what remains to be understood about these important innate immune cells.
Responding to escalating violence by extremist animal-rights groups, academics are working proactively to prevent the harassment and harm of scientists.
The idea that NK cells can distinguish aberrant cells by recognizing 'absence of the expected', rather than 'presence of the unexpected' emerged more than 25 years ago. Klas Kärre recapitulates how the idea took shape, and the first five years of experimental work to test its general predictions.
Over the past decade immunological research in China has developed rapidly. This commentary describes the history, summarizes the present research funding system, institutions and representative work, and discusses the future of immunological research in China.
The United States has suffered years of anti-science policy under the Bush regime. In this year of US presidential elections, scientists have an even greater obligation to make science policy part of the election campaign.
The American Association of Immunologists sponsors summer fellowships for high school and middle school teachers in the laboratories of its members. New curricula developed through the program are expected to enhance secondary school science education throughout the United States.
Mentoring and networking are critical components for success in science. Here the importance and steps required for good mentoring and networking are described.
