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The recent meeting on “Immune Correlates of Protection from HIV Infection and Disease” examined new data from a variety of preclinical and clinical settings. These new insights may facilitate vaccine design and clinical evaluation.
The establishment and replenishment of thymic epithelium and the persistence of epithelial progenitor cells into adult life were discussed at ThymOz-V 2006.
Toll 2006, Recent Advances in Pattern Recognition, held in Salvador, Brazil, 4–7 March 2006, was both comprehensive and cutting edge, covering topics ranging from molecular recognition and signaling to new therapies in the clinic.
The second Aegean conference on 'Autoimmunity: Mechanisms and Novel Treatments' in September, 2005, discussed topics ranging from animal models of autoimmunity to lymphocyte interactions, as well as molecular influences of disease.