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Article: It wants to suck your blood! A fearless scientist ...
SuperScience;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Mark Siddall takes off his shoes and socks. Then, he begins to make his way through a rain forest in Madagascar. A steady rain pelts down on the leafy trees and plants, making for a wet, slippery hike. Siddall looks down at his feet: A handful of leeches have latched on to his bare skin. At this

Article: It wants to suck your blood! A fearless scientist ...
Science World;  October 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Mark Siddall takes off his shoes and socks. Then he begins to slog through a rain forest in Madagascar. A steady rain pelts down on the leafy vegetation, malting for a slippery, humid hike. Siddall looks down at his feet: A handful of leeches have latched on to his bare skin. At this point, most

Article: Clever bunny
The Independent - London;  April 17, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... getting picked up in a bar. But then Dr Polly Matzinger, head of an immunology laboratory ... considerably. The chances of the young Polly Matzinger astonishing the scientific community ... nine-month campaign to persuade Polly Matzinger to take up science, bringing her ...

Article: In silico immunology: Melvin Cohn uses computers to clarify one ...
Technology Review (Cambridge, Mass.);  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... system and how it operates. "Mel is the smartest, most thorough, most creative living immunologic theoretician," says Polly Matzinger, an immunologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. One of Cohn's fundamental immunologic ...

Article: UP FROM THE HUTCH.(Pat Lacey, Playmate Promotions coordinator in ...
Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... of these former bunnies. Her book includes Sabrina Scharf Schiller, an attorney and congressional candidate, and Dr. Polly Matzinger, a distinguished immunologist with The National Institutes of Health. "You had to be on the cutting edge and be a self ...

Article: 'Danger model' challenges old assumptions
Dermatology Times;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...According to Polly Matzinger, Ph.D., the immune system operates in a sleeping mode until injured tissues or cells waken it with alarm signals. Dr. Matzinger ...

Article: Danger, danger, cry injured cells.(Immunology)
Science News;  October 18, 2003 ;     481 words ... ... provides a home for many microbes (SN: 5/31/03, p. 344)--and have proposed alternative theories. For example, Polly Matzinger, an immunologist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., suggests that the immune system reacts to microbes ...