[Mitworld] New: Chen on Immunology and Cancer, Prinn on Climate and Energy

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 27 | March 26, 2007
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[IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER]

SPEAKER:
Jianzhu Chen
Cottrell Professor of Biology;
Professor of Immunology


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/399/>

[QUOTE]
"Someday we should be able to harness the power of T cells to directly
kill tumor cells, but we need a better understanding of T cell-tumor
interaction, how to overcome self-tolerance mechanisms, and tumor
induced tolerance too. In time, it should be possible."
-- Jianzhu Chen


EVENT HOST: MIT School of Science <http://web.mit.edu/science/>

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[CLIMATE AND ENERGY:
 UNCERTAINTIES IN FORECASTS AND THE PROBLEMS OF SCALE]

SPEAKER:
Ronald G. Prinn
TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science, Department of Earth, Atmospheric
and Planetary Sciences
Director, Center for Global Change Science; Co-Director of the MIT Joint
Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/431/>

[QUOTE]
"The climate issue exemplifies the challenge between sustaining a
habitable planet and satisfying everyone's ambitions on the planet to
live a better life."
-- Ronald Prinn


EVENT HOST: Energy Research Council <http://web.mit.edu/erc/index.html>

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