‘Fighting Infection by Clonal Selection’ was created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Burnet’s Clonal Selection Theory. The animation shows how clonal selection works during a bacterial infection of the throat. Frank Macfarlane Burnet was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1960 and is widely acknowledged as the founder of modern immunology.

View more biomedical animations at http://www.wehi.edu.au/wehi-tv
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Stephen Schoenberger: How Does Cancer Avoid the Immune System?

Immunotherapy, an entirely new approach the employs the power of one’s own immune system, has shown to be effective in treating cancers that were fatal just five to 10 years ago. Stephen Schoenberger, PhD, co-director of the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, discusses how tumors develop and how immunotherapy can help at a UC San Diego Health education event on Aug. 20, 2016.

For more information on cancer immunotherapy at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health, see http://health.ucsd.edu/immunotherapy
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