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As little as 30 minutes of exercise five times a week can benefit your immune system.
The metaphor of a collective “carpet of immunity” invites us to imagine immunity as a collaborative project, spreading out to protect those for whom the end of mandates means increased vulnerability.
COVID-19 has taken away so much. An immunology researcher describes the good it may leave behind.
The drug pembrolizumab reveals where latent HIV is hiding.
DNA and mRNA vaccines produce a different kind of immune response than traditional vaccines, allowing researchers to tackle some previously unsolvable problems in medicine.
Remorse and sorrow from a bad choice can haunt you for years, even decades. But there are evidence-based ways to move past regret.
If it’s been six months since your second COVID vaccine dose, it’s time to book in for your booster. Here’s why.
First CDC signed off on a COVID-19 vaccine for adults, then teens. Now US children ages 5 to 11 are officially eligible for shots. Here’s the science on why each group needs to be considered separately.
Protection from infection wanes over time. So boosters will offer extra protection and hopefully reduce the spread of the virus even further.
Life-extension therapies may be coming sooner than you think.
But the immune cells that vaccination spurs do last a long time.
People with HIV need to take daily medication to keep the virus at bay. A study has found that a new treatment combination could boost immunity and control virus levels even after stopping medication.
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.
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.
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Professor in Biomedical Sciences, University of Manchester
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Instructor of Human Immunology, Emory University
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Research Fellow; Rheumatology Research Group, Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash University
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Project Coordinator & Staff Scientist, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt University
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Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Immunology, University of Manchester
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Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University
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Professor, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Immunology and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research Partnerships, Victoria University
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Immunology researcher, Monash University
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Director, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital and Consultant Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Research Scientist and Principal Investigator at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan
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Professional Research Fellow, University of Tasmania
