Thursday, May 07, 2015

#health2stat john Tsang MIT. Uncovering markers of immune responsiveness

Markers in Immunology

The immune system has been implicated in a variety of diseases. It impacts almost every aspect of our health.

How do we derive more useful markers for the immune system.

Immune profiling with data integration and analysis.

Genomics, proteomics and cellular biology.

High volume analysis of lots of immune variables across lots of people.

Study indicates a lot of human variations. Markers are stable over time for an individual but varies across people.

Vaccines are being used to uncover immune markers. Entogens create antibodies.

Pre-vaccination immune markers can predict the response to a vaccine.

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