Matthew Donnelly

Editor’s summary Abstract Supplementary Materials References and Notes Information & Authors Metrics & Citations Check Access References Figures Tables Media Share This article has 0 eLetter . Editor’s summary Type II interferon (IFN-II) normally activates the immune system to fight cancer. However, prolonged IFN-II exposure can promote an immunosuppressive tumor environment that supports cancer growth, a confounding factor in cancer therapies. Johnson et al.

Photograph by Horace Nicholls (1917), Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons College meals at Oxford and Cambridge certainly aren’t regarded as the pinnacle of gastronomic excellence. In fact, they have a pretty appalling reputation for being bland, sloppy, and depressing — enough to make Marco Pierre White shudder. This is a reputation that has persisted for generations and I, for one, think it is unjustified. Oxford students tend to love their own colleges. I certainly do.

The Country Pub by David Teniers the Younger (1660), Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons Roughly 1,000 pubs have banned Labour MPs from their premises, revealing something about the state of British politics. When landlords resort to gestures as dramatic as this, it suggests a frightening breakdown in the normal channels of democratic dialogue. After mounting pressure, Rachel Reeves’s climbdown on business rates for pubs has prompted legitimate questions about fairness and consistency.