Hallmarks, Avoiding detection: Stillman
Bruce Stillman, Ph.D. is president and chief executive officer of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, discusses an area of immunology called adjuvant therapy, and how it is used to stimulate the body's immune system with agents that activate the immune system.
Bruce Stillman, Ph.D. is president and chief executive officer of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He is interested in understanding the mechanism and control of DNA replication in higher cells. Working in baker's yeast, he has identified DNA sequences and proteins that interact to initiatiate chromosome duplication. "A very exciting area of immunology is what is called adjuvant therapy. And this is where you stimulate the body's immune system with agents that activate the immune system and make them hypersensitive to these foreign cells in our body such as cancer cells. And there are a number of clinical trials going on now where the immune system is being enhanced by these kinds of adjuvant or stimulant therapies, and there has been some success although I think there is still a lot of research in this area to do."
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949. Hallmarks, Avoiding detection
Bruce Stillman, Ph.D. is president and chief executive officer of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, explains that there are two adaptive immune responses, and those immune responses adapt to changes in cells in our body whether they be by infection or other.
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16713. Gallery 34: Bruce Stillman and Doug Hanahan (R), 1984
1984 picture of Doug Hanahan (R) and Bruce Stillman, current Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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952. Hallmarks, Promoting mutations: Stillman
Bruce Stillman, Ph.D., president of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory discusses that you need to acquire multiple changes in genes estimated to be about 5-7 genes perhaps on average, to get a full-blown cancer.
951. Hallmarks, Promoting mutations
Bruce Stillman, Ph.D., president of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, explains that genomic instability is a characteristic of cancer cells.
16888. 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology: Telomeres
Nobel Prize week kicked-off today with the announcement of the Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak will share the award for discovering telomeres and telomerase. Dr. Bruce Stillman, President of Cold Sprin
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16292. Gallery 11: Calvin Bridges, 1937
Calvin Bridges during a stay at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1937.
15694. François Jacob
François Jacob, Cold Spring Harbor, 1953 meeting. Source: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives.
16671. Gallery 32: Barbara McClintock, 1951
Barbara McClintock at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1951
16597. Gallery 27: Alfred Hershey and Seymour Benzer, 1953
Alfred Hershey and Seymour Benzer at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1953 Symposium.
Barbara McClintock working in the cornfield at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.