A Warrior Who Fought Custer

The Wars of the Roses: Who Fought and Why?

No such detailed analysis is possible in the fifteenth century, since the evidence is not available before 1485. That is why 1485 is such an important date in the history books—not because it heralded any sudden change in social conditions or political thought, but because it marks the beginning in England of political propaganda. The Tudors allowed their motives, or what they wished to be thou...

YHWH is a Warrior

Autoimmunity fought in the cortex

In the best-case scenario, self-attacking T cells are ousted before they have a chance to leave the thymus. That essential process, which eliminates autoreactive thymocytes from the get-go, is known to occur in the thymic medulla. Now, on page 2575, McCaughtry et al. provide solid evidence that this elimination also occurs in the thymic cortex. Although immunologists have reported T cell deleti...

CMV: a warrior against leukemia?

In this issue of Blood, Green et al provide additional information supporting that cytomegalovirus (CMV) reduces leukemia relapse after allogeneic stem cell transplantation.

A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study has been to confirm the sex and the affinity of an individual buried in a well-furnished warrior grave (Bj 581) in the Viking Age town of Birka, Sweden. Previously, based on the material and historical records, the male sex has been associated with the gender of the warrior and such was the case with Bj 581. An earlier osteological classification of the in...