Overview
Introduction
Hacking the Immune System
by Ricki Rusting
Section 1: Coping with COVID
1.1 Inside the Coronavirus
by Mark Fischetti
1.2 Fast-Track Drugs for COVID
by Michael Waldholz
1.3 The Vaccine Quest
by Charles Schmidt
1.4 COVID-19 Vaccine Developers Search for Antibodies that “First Do No Harm”
by Esther Landhuis
1.5 What Immunity to COVID-19 Really Means
by Stacey McKenna
Section 2: Beyond COVID: Vaccines for Infectious Disease
2.1 Vaccines Reimagined
by Melinda Wenner Moyer
2.2 Fact or Fiction: Vaccines Are Dangerous
by Dina Fine Maron
2.3 Genomic Vaccines Fight Disease in Ways Not Possible Before
by Geoffrey Ling
2.4 A Universal Flu Vaccine Is Vital
by Catharine I. Paules & Anthony S. Fauci
2.5 New Finding Advances the Search for a Universal Flu Vaccine
by Dina Fine Maron
2.6 How to Kill HIV: Target Its “Influencers”
by Apoorva Mandavilli
2.7 The Dengue Debacle
by Seema Yasmin & Madhusree Mukerjee
2.8 Prior Dengue Infection Protects Children against Zika Symptoms
by Debbie Ponchner
Section 3: Immunotherapy for Cancer
3.1 A Shot against Cancer
by Karen Weintraub
3.2 The Biology of Sugars Points to a Sweet Strategy for Treating Cancer
by Esther Landhuis
3.3 The Next Wave of Immuno-Oncology
by Rafael Amado
3.4 Cancer Therapy in 2020
by Sharon Ofer
3.5 Are We Innately Immune to Cancer
by Mark Lowdell
3.6 What’s Next after Creating a Cancer-Prevention Vaccine
by Dina Fine Maron
Section 4: Surprising Targets for Immune Hacks
4.1 Could Immunotherapy Treat Diseases Besides Cancer?
by Karen Weintraub
4.2 Killer Infections: Is It in Your Genes?
by Claudia Wallis
4.3 The Seventh Sense
by Jonathan Kipnis
4.4 What Would It Take to Get an Effective Alzheimer’s Drug?
by Sam Gandy, Tamas Bartfai, Graham Lees and Mary Sano
4.5 Fighting the Opioid Crisis with Vaccines and Better Chemistry
by Dina Fine Maron
4.6 Vanquishing Diabetes
by Kristen M. Drescher & Steven Tracy
Section 5: Boosting Immunity
5.1 How to Boost Your Immunity
by Claudia Wallis