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Infiltrating Immune Intelligence
... sometimes something goes wrong and they present our own antigens, initiating immune responses against ourselves." ... they react to certain diseases to better understand our own responses. We can intercept and suppress the precursors ...
DNA editing techniques can combat herpes
... of small pieces of DNA that park themselves alongside our own human DNA inside our cells. This places them beyond the ...
Protein “Restraining Order” for Gut Bacteria
... us healthy, performing important metabolic roles that our own cells can't. But we don't fully understand how the ...
Teaching T Cells to Tolerate Friends
... other molecules. Some of these would interact with our own cells, leading to auto-immune diseases but in the thymus ...
In-situ cancer vaccine knocks out lymphoma
... cells as a threat, because they are still the body’s own cells and can escape immune surveillance. The new ...
AIDS Awareness Week
... HIV works by entering immune cells and using the cell's own machinery to make copies of itself, damaging the cell in ...
Plants Need to Switch Off Intruder Alerts
... can contribute to the immune system attacking the person's own tissues, a condition known as autoimmunity. The same ...
How fever helps us fight infections
... flu, try to be grateful and remember that it’s for your own good... Running a temperature improves our ...