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Immune system
During pregnancy, mothers produce a powerful antibody to protect their newborns from infection
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New covid-19 variants keep on arising and spreading, but can our bodies still recognize these variants and protect us from serious disease?
Antibiotics have revolutionized the treatment of deadly infectious diseases, but does that mean that these diseases are only a thing of the past?
Tuberculosis survives most of what our bodies have to throw at it. What tricks does it employ that other diseases don’t?
From one tissue environment to the next, pathogens are challenged and react in different ways. Researchers have found two novel mechanisms by which the microbiota and immune system interact to protect against antibiotic-resistant pathogens.