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Vaccinia, a pox virus particle.

Triggering the immune system to attack tumours

... rashes, and organ damage.  But if we could trigger our own immune system to target a tumour, then we'd have a way to ... David K. -   What we do is we get the body's own defence mechanism, the immune system, to turn its sights ... healthy tissues get hit too. But if we could trigger our own immune system to target a tumour, then we’d have a way ...

Virus

What is flu?

... dirty work. Like all viruses, it can’t reproduce on its own – it needs the cells in your body for that. When flu ... a running nose and blocked sinuses are also caused by your own body as it goes into defensive mode – mucus makes it ...

A person with a cold, sneezing into a hacky

Giving germs a cold of their own

... ebola viruses that attack humans, bacteria have got their own natural enemies in the form of viruses that target and ... we give bacteria a virus? Giving germs a cold of their own ...

Digitally-colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of Zika virus, which is a member of the family Flaviviridae. Virus particles, here colored blue, are 40 nm in diameter, with an outer envelope, and an inner dense core.

Abortions boosted by Zika warnings

... been feeling that they have to take matters into their own hands to procure abortion in settings where it isn't ... advice on where they can be reliably obtained within their own settings. And were were very fortunate to obtain their ...

Virus

What is Flu?

... reason that you feel so really bad with flu is that your own immune system recognises that these cells have been ... the symptoms of flu in a human is down to the person’s own immune system, as we’ve discussed, of sending out those ...

A team of doctors walking through a hospital corridor

Screening healthcare workers for Covid-19

... and to patients, and actually hospitals could become their own individual hubs of transmission unless we do something ...

a woman sneezing

A cure for the common cold?

... viruses, it can only make more copies of itself inside our own cells. So when the virus infects our cells, it hijacks ...

Map of Europe

Flu Survey - Tracking Influenza Across a Continent

... was talking about a case where individuals act as their own controls and we're trying to do the same really.  So, if ...

Aphids feeding on a fennel plant. Taken in Swifts Creek, Victoria

The Trouble with Sapsuckers

... diseases in plants manipulate sapsucking insects for their own ends? The Trouble with Sapsuckers ...

Electron micrograph of HSV particles

Cellular Housekeeping could block HIV

... I think illustrates just how important it is for their own survival and if we can prevent the virus from outsmarting ...

Cells of a virus

Lassa Fever infections in the UK

... which they published together in the journal Nature. His own brush with Lassa Fever meant that Casals was in no doubt ...

India is being very hard hit by Covid-19

Covid-19 Indian Variant B.1.617

... to do is really to stress the continued importance of our own behaviour, washing our hands, wearing a face mask, ...

Pseudomonas bacteria

Love thy virus

... 3 and what the students are able to do is find their very own bacteriophage, completely unique, it's never been seen ...

Spike glycoprotein from SARS-CoV-2.

Device detects drop in Covid in patients' breath

... the reason for that is that as you imagine swabbing your own nose, you're taking a sample from a very, very small ...

Healthcare worker drawing up influenza (flu) vaccine shot

Machine learning helps doctors stay ahead of the flu

... us to have this really fast thinking that can add into our own human intelligence that we're using to pick these ...