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A growing body of research shows that nutrition, sleep, exercise and a host of other lifestyle choices can help optimize the immune system. But they are no substitute for life-saving vaccines.
It’s unclear whether the patients were already predisposed to these diseases, or the infection unmasked a process that had already begun. Or perhaps the infection triggered a completely new illness.
New discovery could help scientists develop more targeted drugs and vaccines.
Medications to treat COVID-19 are in no way a substitute for the vaccine. But under the right circumstances, some show great promise for helping patients.
A medical student answers questions he gets asked at a COVID-19 vaccine clinic: Efficacy versus real-world effectiveness, immune response and how the mRNA vaccines compare to vaccines already in wide use.
Cell-mediated immunity is particularly effective at eradicating viruses, and more durable. This is important in the fight against COVID-19.
How the immune system learns not to attack a developing fetus and placenta is important to understanding pregnancy and its common complications, like miscarriage.
A COVID-19 vaccine does not cause infertility – but it can protect you from the dangerous complications of contracting the virus.
People with weakened immune systems are at a high risk of severe and prolonged COVID-19 infections. An extra vaccine dose can bolster protection.
Recovering from COVID and then getting vaccinated, known as hybrid immunity, is more potent than being infected or vaccinated alone.
A fear of microbes, like germs, could be harming human health.
Vaccines have successfully curtailed viral diseases for decades. But as COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy shows, mistrust and misinformation continue to put lives at risk.
Our immune system is controlled by our “body clock” – an intricate 24-hour system which controls how cells function.
People are likely to show compassion to those showing symptoms of illness or injury. Is that how our immune system evolved?
The survival of the human body is a fine balancing act between cell growth and cell death. Understanding our cells’ complex “licence to die” could give us new ways to combat disease.
Invisible to the eye, the microbial life in the air around us can vary depending on our environment.
Observing the progression of an infection in real-time allows us to better understand how antibiotic resistance develops.
It’s normal for different people to mount stronger or weaker immune responses to a vaccine, but post-shot side effects won’t tell you which you are.
Research shows that the gaps in physical exercise have widened substantially between men and women, whites and non-whites, rich and poor and educated and less educated: especially during the pandemic.
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Instructor of Human Immunology, Emory University
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Professor in Biomedical Sciences, University of Manchester
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Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Fellow; Rheumatology Research Group, Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash University
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Professor of Immunology, Imperial College London
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Biochemistry & Immunology Lecturer, Swansea University
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Ecologist and Researcher, Flinders University
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Research associate, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Brown University
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Professor of Immunology and Director of the Systems Immunity Research Institute, Cardiff University
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Professional Research Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Senior Research Fellow in Immunology, University of Tasmania
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Director, Children’s Health and Environment Program and World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Children’s Health and Environment, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Biology, Flinders University
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Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney
