George Whiteside's biography on TED mentions a remarkable list of accomplishments. 950 scientific articles coauthored, he's co-founded a dozen companies and has 50-plus patents with his name on them. This talk focuses on a postage stamp sized device that doesn't require the assistance of a medical technologist or the drawing of blood.

Dr. Gary Matyas and Dr. Carl Alving, researchers in the Division of Retrovirology, MHRP, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), reported in the August 25th online edition of AIDS that they have experimentally induced antibodies that neutralize HIV-1 and recognize both HIV-1 envelope protein and lipids - a first in the HIV research arena.

Researchers at the Jewish General Hospital Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research and McGill University in Montreal have used a new immune-suppressing treatment to completely reverse multiple sclerosis (MS) in mice - sending the autoimmune disease into remission.

Since it was first suggested as the reason for red wines cardioprotective effects in 1992, it has been known that resveratrol acts as an anti-inflammatory. Exactly how this phytoalexin - or plant antibiotic - controlled inflammation has alluded researchers until recently.

University of Bath and Exeter researchers teamed up to develop the first ever system that allows them to follow the progress of bacterial infection in real-time, with living organisms. Traditional studies of bacterial infection are done after the death of the infected organism - in a petri dish - and lack key processes and cellular signals that play an integral part in the infection process.

Researchers at The University of Nottingham have recently suggested that some parasites - such as lice - are important in conditioning our "natural" immune system. Many health problems seen in modern humans today are caused by the body mistakenly attacking its own cells resulting in autoimmune diseases such as arthritis, asthma, diabetes or multiple sclerosis.

The immune system uses proteins encoded by the human leukocyte antigen system (HLAs) to differentiate self-cells from non-self cells. The proteins encoded by HLAs are effectively unique to that person - any cell not displaying a person's HLA type is an invader, and 'marked' for destruction by the bodies defense system of killer T cells.

A new global map of malaria has been released by the Malaria Atlas Project showing how severe the risks of contracting malaria are worldwide. Never before has this been attempted using empirical data at this scale and the product represents an important bench-mark of malaria endemicity in 2007.

A new report released in the January 2009 issue of the Federation of the American Societies for Experimental Biology Journal (FASEB) details, for the first time, how the human body rearranges genes to produce antibodies to fight off infections during the cold and flu season.

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have discovered that the cancer drug bortezomib - typically used to treat cancer of the plasma cells - is an effective therapy that can be used in transplant patients.