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The Hygiene Hypothesis, Part 3. Are Parasitic Worms Friend or Foe?
... . The question we're now looking at is: why? 'Why' questions in biology require evolutionary explanations; it is ... as many offspring. Thus, the two species propel each-other to ever greater sprinting speeds ( Figure 3 ). ... and a special band of cells that suppress the activity of other immunological cells, called regulatory T cells , or T ...
Naked from afar
... over the last month or so. I was just as nervous as the other contestants while waiting to take the stage in The ... UK and Australia, I had Monday to write and polish my news articles from the previous week and find interesting news ... during the call to understand the research and decide what questions to ask during the interview. Tuesday evenings we ...
The Hygiene Hypothesis Unraveled
... immune system , which evolved to fight off infections and other harmful agents, like bacteria and viruses, ... diseases. Anne Cooke has also shown that a range of other helminths, such as Heligmosomoides polygyrus and ... in the United States thinks that the answer to both those questions is a resounding yes, as we'll discuss in the next ...
Creationism vs. Science
... committed themselves to dogged attempts at proving each other wrong. But does the Creation debate really come down to ... is that expecting a theological text to answer scientific questions is no smarter than expecting a scientist to offer ...