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News & Newsletters | 10/29/2019

Help Wanted: Young Professional for Board of Councilors

An opening, exclusively for early career investigators, is now available with the SMI Board of Councilors. This is an exciting opportunity to connect with well-known researchers, advance your caree...

Protocols & Lab Techniques | 6/13/2019

Tissue clonality of dendritic cell subsets and emergency DCpoiesis revealed by multicolor fate mapping of DC progenitors

Conventional dendritic cells (cDCs) are found in all tissues and play a key role in immune surveillance. They comprise two major subsets, cDC1 and cDC2, both derived from circulating precursors of...

Protocols & Lab Techniques | 6/13/2019

A Weaning Reaction to Microbiota Is Required for Resistance to Immunopathologies in the Adult

Here, Al Nabhani et al, show an essential step in the induction of intestinal tolerance is a marked immune response at weaning. Disrupting this microbial-driven response results in susceptibility t...