Recent Articles

• Breakthrough T Cell Discovery Has Huge Potential for Engineering Custom Immune Responses

   Posted on October 25, 2023

  In a breakthrough discovery that changes how we understand T cells and with implications of how we can better engineer custom immune responses to fight disease, Institute for Systems Biology researchers showed that the different disease-fighting functions of different T cells are determined by the genetically encoded T-cell receptor sequence that are unique to those cells.

• How Immune Cells ‘See’ and Respond to Mutations in Cancer Cells

   Posted on March 8, 2023

  In a just-published paper in the journal Nature, a collaborative team of researchers from ISB, UCLA, PACT Pharma, and beyond analyzed T-cell responses in melanoma patients who were treated with different immune checkpoint inhibitors, and how those responses evolved over time.

• Ginny Ruffner and Dr. Jim Heath Explore the Intersection of Art and Science

   Posted on January 23, 2023

  Renowned artist Ginny Ruffner and ISB President Dr. Jim Heath delivered a lecture at Town Hall Seattle about the intersection of art and science. They spoke about how creation stories tie scientists and artists together, and how their approaches are both similar and different from that point on.