Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915) was born in East Prussia (now Poland), the son of a lottery-office keeper. He went to the University of Leipzig to pursue a career in medicine. By the time he graduated in ...

Paul Ehrlich, an American biologist ... the worst mass extinction episode we’ve seen since the dinosaurs. The scientists say that even if humans survive the ongoing mass extinctions, we ...

A recent study carried out by a research team from the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut investigated the immunomodulating properties of ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the award of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to Paul Ehrlich, in recognition of his contribution to immunology. His impact, however, extended ...

RELEASE THE RECEPTORS: According to Ehrlich’s side-chain theory —depicted here in a diagram used to illustrate his lecture to the Royal Society of London in 1900—immune cells were dotted with a vast ...

Up until the 1950s, one prevailing view among scientists was that the body could not produce antibodies against itself. This concept, known as horror autotoxicus, or the fear of self-toxicity, was ...

Cases of secondary tumors have been reported as a possible adverse reaction to the treatment of certain blood cancers with CAR T-cells. A recent analysis of the cases reported to the ...