A former anti-vax mom talks about going down the rabbit hole, her mindset shift, the importance of doctors who are willing to talk with patients about vaccines, and why she is now a vaccine advocate.

Host: Cindy Leifer

Guest: Ellen Mary Woods

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• What the iPhone bendgate can teach us about vaccine hesitancy
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Gabrielle Rizzuto from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center discusses her work on the curious immunology of pregnancy and how a woman tolerates a genetically different baby but quickly rejects a mismatched organ donation.

Host: Cindy Leifer

Guest: Gabrielle Rizzuto

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• Tolerance at the fetal-maternal interface (Nature, 2022)
• The paradox of fetal-maternal tolerance (J Exp Med, 2022)
• Spatially resolved timeline of fetal-maternal interface (Nature, 2023)
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Immune discusses how tattoo ink accumulates in lymph nodes, promotes inflammation and influences response to two different vaccines.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Stephanie Langel, and Brianne Barker

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• IL-9, CAR T cells and anti-tumor CD8 cells
• Tattoo ink, inflammation and vaccines
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