Focus
Nature Immunology is 10
- Focus issue:
- July 2010 Volume 11, No 7
Nature Immunology was launched 10 years ago in July 2000. In the past 10 years this journal has attempted to publish immunology research that significantly advances the understanding of the workings of the immune system. To commemorate this anniversary, we asked several prominent scientists to imagine what the next decade of research might bring in particular areas of immunology. This collection represents but the tip of the iceberg and is not meant to represent the only interests of Nature Immunology, as many other exciting areas remain to be explored. After all, our motto remains "Immunology. All of it."
Editorial
Looking forward - p545
doi:10.1038/ni0710-545
Nature Immunology turns 10 years old in July. What new immunologic insights will the next decade bring?
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Commentaries
Innate immunity: quo vadis? - pp551 - 553
Ruslan Medzhitov
doi:10.1038/ni0710-551
The next decade will probably witness the development of new concepts that will incorporate the presently unexplained aspects of innate immunity.
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Illuminating emergent activity in the immune system by real-time imaging - pp554 - 557
Matthew F Krummel
doi:10.1038/ni0710-554
The imaging of tissues and organs as it is now practiced will seem primitive in the coming decade, yet use of this technology will define the origin of emergent activities and drive an era of system integration.
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The future of mucosal immunology: studying an integrated system-wide organ - pp558 - 560
Navkiran Gill, Marta Wlodarska & B Brett Finlay
doi:10.1038/ni0710-558
Over the next 10 years, it will be important to shift the focus of mucosal immunology research to make further advances. Examination of the mucosal immune system as a global organ, rather than as a group of individual components, will identify and characterize relationships between mucosal sites.
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Understanding immunity requires more than immunology - pp561 - 564
Kevin J Tracey
doi:10.1038/ni0710-561
Acetylcholine and related neurotransmitters appeared with unicellular life forms, millions of years before innate immunity. Tools and insights are now available for understanding how the evolving nervous system influenced the development of immunity.
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Tools and landscapes of epigenetics - pp565 - 568
Alexander Tarakhovsky
doi:10.1038/ni0710-565
Epigenetics studies the phenotypes that are born from past experiences and are kept for life.
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