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Episode 8 – Let's just make it more deadly Aug 18, 2014

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Kate and Kevin talk influenza and gain of function research. Should we be making flu more deadly?
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Episode 7 - Hot Dog Buns, Hard Lines and Floppy Bits Jul 14, 2014

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After a hard day's work, sometimes you want to just kick your feet back and relax. Unfortunately, sometimes your CD8 T-cells want the same thing, even though they don't have feet.
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Episode 6 – Just a Huge Distraction Jun 04, 2014

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In this episode, Kevin talks with Pamela Ronald, professor of plant pathology at the University of California, Davis. Almost 20 years ago, Ronald discovered Xa21, a plant pattern recognition receptor that guards against bacterial infection. This receptor shares many features with Toll-like receptors, and the role of Xa21 was shown a year before TLRs were implicated in immunity.
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Episode 5 - When the Carnies Roll In May 14, 2014

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In Episode 5, we're talking about neutrophils, and the special way they die.
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Episode 4 – Willy Nilly Brownian Motion Apr 25, 2014

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After a long absence, we're back! With an episode about the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis and how immune cells navigate the around the body.
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Episode 3 - Immunologists' Dirty Little Secret Mar 06, 2014

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Today, we're talking the *other* immunity (that both Kate and Kevin happen to study). Neglected for nearly one hundred years, the innate immune system is required for getting inflammation going, and without it, adaptive immunity wouldn't function.
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Episode 2 - Antibodies and Infantry Feb 24, 2014

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In this episode, we're talking antibodies - what they are and what they have to do with Vaccines. Also, we discuss efforts to use engineered antibodies to treat HIV.
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Episode 1 - Everyone else’s kidneys Jan 30, 2014

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In this episode, we're talking transplantation: Why is it so damned hard to transfer tumors between mice? Why do we have to go to extraordinary lengths to transplant kidneys between humans?
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