Hello Loyal Escaping Anergy Readers!! I am writing to:  1. thank you all for your continue support of helping to bridge the communication gap between scientists and the public by reading Escaping Anergy: The Immunology Research Blog  and  2. to explain that I am finally emerging for my Winter Hibernation.  Ok so, I wasn't actually burrowed in the...

from thecelebrationshoppe.com I want to sincerely thank everyone who voted and helped to spread the word in support of Escaping Anergy for the 2011 Blogging Scholarship! This year, Escaping Anergy competed against blogs about the NBA, baseball, religion, shark conservation, paleontology, tech gadgets and traveling at the chance to...

"The academic research and teaching communities for science and related fields need to see blogging as more than a casual hobby, as core outreach for their science. It is an effective way for scientists to counter the misunderstandings, deliberate and otherwise, of popular culture...In this way, we can ensure that the quality of the science that is...

from Dissemination of Research           There is so much interesting aspects to the field of immunology in addition to the amazing research it offers, including historical and societal issues, that perhaps if discussed candidly would increase the public’s support and value towards basic research.  In addition to writing and discussing the latest published...

Healthy bone structure (left) vs Osteoporotic bone (right). From www.karger.comPublic Interest Note:             Put two simple, innocuous words together and you get a longer word describing a disease that affects 200 million women worldwide: “Osteo” from the Greek word “osteon” meaning “bone” and “Porosis” meaning porous.  Porous bones.  Bone filled...

SEM  image of HIV virons (green) infecting a CD4+ T cell (red) from CDC.gov.Public Interest Note:            Can you live on an annual salary of less than $2,000?  Even if you could somehow, manage to have some clothes, water, food and shelter, what happens when you get sick? These are the difficulties facing the millions of people living in resource-poor...