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Understanding how pregnancy changes some of the body's fundamental systems could help treat cancer and other diseases.
With an ageing population, and the growing threat of antibiotic resistance, now is the time to be worried about sepsis.
Can your kids be too clean? Increases in allergies suggest so. But how much dirt is too much? A pediatric allergist explains the fascinating reasons the immune system needs dirt for training.
Babies are normally vaccinated against measles at 12 months old. But doctors are now suggesting having the shot as early as six months might be worthwhile for youngsters traveling overseas.
How can a tiny flu virus make you feel so bad, all over? Here's what's behind your high temperature, muscle aches and other flu symptoms.
The 2018-2019 flu season was less deadly than the last. But the pattern of infection was unusual, thanks to the various strains circulating and the way flu shots work over time.
Sjögren’s syndrome has no cure. Here's how it affects the body and what the future might bring for people with this challenging autoimmune disease.
There's more to antibiotics than meets the eye.
With food allergies on the rise, it's important to understand the role the skin plays in protecting or exposing us to reactions.
The cornerstone of our adaptive immune system is the ability to remember the various infections we have encountered. Quite literally, if it doesn’t kill you, it makes your immune system stronger.
A better understanding of CFS could lead to new treatments.
Don't try this at home, kids.
Allison and Honjo discovered how inhibiting the brakes in our immune systems can be used to treat cancer.
Tonsil tissue is particularly important in the first six months of life. After this, our lymph glands take over most of the work and the tonsils are essentially out of a job.
There may be additional long-term health harms from antibiotic exposure in early life and before birth, including an increased risk of infection, obesity and asthma.
Fungi perform a vital role in the biological cycle, but pose an increasing danger to human health – invasive fungal infections kill three times more people than malaria.
Nobel laureate Peter Doherty explains immunity.
The physiological changes at the onset of schizophrenia are as marked as the mental changes, new study finds.
Migrating to Europe changed the immune systems of birds who no longer needed to worry about African diseases.
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Research Fellow; Rheumatology Research Group, Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash University
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Kim Jacobson is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate professor, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University
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Professor, University of Adelaide
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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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Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University
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Peter C. Doherty is a Friend of The Conversation.
Laureate Professor, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Professor and Chair, Department of Immunology, Monash University
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Professor Emeritus, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Sciences, RMIT University
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Professor, viral immunology, Monash University
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Clinician and Scientist, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Medicine and Specialist Physician (Internal Medicine), UNSW
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University Research Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Physician, University of Oxford
