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The new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, spreads faster than the H1N1 influenza virus and is much deadlier. SARS-CoV-2 is particularly skilled at keeping cells from calling out for help.
Before a vaccine is available to teach your immune system to ward off the coronavirus, maybe you can directly use molecules that have already fought it in other people.
A test that detects antibodies against the coronavirus behind COVID-19 would reveal those people who have already encountered the virus - and therefore who might be ok to resume normal life.
Traditional vaccines can take years to create. Rather than immunizing people with viral proteins, the new approach gives the molecular instructions that allows the body to make its own vaccine.
The immune system can respond to stress in ways that harm health. But there’s a stress-buster that can help keep you calm and healthy: exercise.
Your gut plays an important role in building your immune defences. Don’t neglect it.
Different demographics are more or less vulnerable to serious complications from the coronavirus. A virologist explains the aging-related changes in how immune systems work that are to blame.
If your child has accidentally eaten something you thought they were allergic to, but doesn’t have a response, they may have grown out of their food allergy. Here’s the safest way to check.
Leaving your coat at home on a cold winter day doesn’t automatically mean you’re going to get sick. But it could make you more susceptible to germs.
From dietary supplements to poop transplants, probiotics are now a multi-billion dollar market.
The cream was found to boost the body’s anti-viral immune response, stopping mosquito-borne viruses in their tracks.
There are more effective ways to give the tuberculosis vaccine.
Fighting off infection comes with predictable psychological and behavioral features. Now researchers suggest an emotion coordinates this response to help you get better. They call it ‘lassitude.’
Peanut allergens have multiple allergenic traits that set them apart from other nuts.
Many migraine headaches are triggered by certain foods. Recently, a lot of attention has focused on gluten. An expert explains how a piece of bread can cause pain in your head.
Researchers are trying to boost the power of our immune system by genetically altering our white blood cells and transforming them into super-soldiers to fight cancer.
Koala retrovirus is a menace to koalas, but by watching it at work scientists are finding out how the genome defends itself
An anthropologist works in American Samoa, taking advantage of the island’s longstanding tattoo culture to tease out the effects tattoos have on the body’s immune function.
A promising new approach to treating MS tricks defective immune cells into thinking they are attacking the body, when they are in fact being attacked themselves.
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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
