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

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

High salt intake seems to impair the immune cells in humans that fight bacteria because of a side effect of the hormones that help get rid of salt

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

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

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Overactive immune cells in babies may lead to childhood asthma

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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

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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.

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Drug that restricts overactive immune systems could help treat lupus

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Experimental dengue vaccine cuts infection rates in real-world trials

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The MMR vaccine protects against measles

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

We’ve long known that viruses can target cancers in our bodies. Now, thanks to gene editing, we’re using them as tumour search and destroy agents – and getting our immune systems to join the fight too

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

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Immunotherapy may help treat some resistant bowel cancers

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Gut microbes may determine whether infants develop food allergies

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Promising treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome fails large trial

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