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belly fat

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Your body fat may be protecting you against infections

Fat isn’t all bad – it stores powerful immune cells, and seems to boost their ability to defend the body from dangerous infections

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An underweight newborn baby

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The body’s killer immune cells also feed fetuses in the womb

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Pig whipworms on monitor

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Parasitic worm eggs may soon be legally sold as food in Germany

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A person lying down

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Blood biomarkers may help diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome

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Sign saying Latitude

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Hot science makes an unexpected appearance at a cool festival

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Feeling lonely? You're not on your own

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tumour

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Cancer vaccines could prime our own bodies to fight tumours

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Parkinson's

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Best evidence yet that Parkinson's could be autoimmune disease

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People doing yoga

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Mindfulness and meditation dampen down inflammation genes

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Tumour-tracking drug that kills cancer approved in the US

For the first time, a drug that can find and fight cancer – regardless of where it is in the body – has been approved

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