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Immune system

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Deep-sea anglerfish fuse bodies to mate thanks to an odd immune system

Some male anglerfish fuse to the much larger females to mate 鈥� they can do so because they don鈥檛 recognise their partner鈥檚 tissue as foreign material that should be attacked

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Computer illustration of plasma cells (B-cells) secreting antibodies against viruses

Antibodies

Health

Eating too much salt seems to impair body’s ability to fight bacteria

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Health

How to fight infection by turning back your immune system’s clock

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Cytokines

Cytokine storm

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Overactive immune cells in babies may lead to childhood asthma

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What is immunology?
Immune system T cells attacking growing cancer cells

Health

The immune cells inside tumours hint at a new way to treat cancers

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A man works in a pharmaceutical factory. Visual monitoring of the quality of interferon production. Sterile hormone production line.

Health

Drug that restricts overactive immune systems could help treat lupus

A drug that interferes with the body鈥檚 ability to mount an immune response is only the second new one for the autoimmune condition lupus in 60 years

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Health

Experimental dengue vaccine cuts infection rates in real-world trials

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Measles has a devastating and long-term effect on your immune system

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Beating cancer: How viruses are being used to infect and kill tumours

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Health

Sticky nets of DNA from immune cells may be to blame for gallstones

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