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France. Normandy. Fecamp. Coronavirus. Marie and her son Gaston, totally confined to the house. Both are infected with the virus,??that day the symptoms were strong. Few days later Marie and Gaston will be recovered from the virus and fine again.

Health

What effect did lockdown have on your child’s immune system?

Scientists are getting to grips with the real effect that social distancing during the covid-19 lockdowns had on babies' and young people’s immunity

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T-cells and brain cancer cell. Composite coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of T-cells and an apoptotic brain cancer cell. T-cells are a component of the body's immune system. CAR T-cell therapy takes T-cells from a cancer patient's blood and modifies them to recognize a specific protein found on patient's tumor cells. When reintroduced to the patient the T-cells find and destroy the tumour cells. The newest form of CAR T-cell therapy, now in clinical trials, uses 'memory' T-cells which remain in the body after attacking the cancer. The hope is that memory T-cells may provide an active reservoir of cancer-killing cells capable of stopping further tumours. Magnification: x6000 at 10cm wide.

Health

How genetically engineered immune cells are beating some cancers

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MANILA, PHILIPPINES - AUGUST 19: Commuters are seen wearing face masks and face shields inside a bus on August 19, 2020 in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines. President Rodrigo Duterte relaxed quarantine measures in the Philippine capital in a bid to boost the country's tanking economy despite having the most coronavirus cases in Southeast Asia. The Philippines' health ministry has so far confirmed 173,774 cases of the coronavirus, a third of which were recorded in the last two weeks. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)

Health

The sex differences that impact the strength of your immune system

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New York, New York - March 14, 2020: The movement and travel restrictions instituted in NYC are having significant economic impacts. A sign at a GNC reads "The Best Defense is a strong immune system"; Shutterstock ID 1673613259; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Health

Why do some people appear to have a naturally strong immune system?

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Health

The food and drink that really can boost your immune system

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Health

The AI immune system that’s changing our understanding of human health

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Senior women exercising at home

Health

How the immune system changes with age and why

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Banded mongoose group approaching with curiosity (Mungos mungo). Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. March 2018.

Life

Inside the complex and extremely violent world of warring mongooses

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Polycystic ovary syndrome

Health

A better understanding of PCOS offers fresh hope for new treatments

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Neil Turok mirror universe

Physics

Neil Turok on the case for a parallel universe going backwards in time

To explain the cosmos without invoking cosmic inflation, physicist Neil Turok has proposed the existence of a mirror-image universe going backwards in time from the big bang. He tells us why the idea is so compelling

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Earth

The mysterious underwater avalanches reshaping Earth

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Mind

Fresh ideas about the causes of depression are bringing new treatments

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Technology

Web3 promises to reclaim the internet from tech giants – will it work?

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Life

How we finally tracked European eels all the way to the Sargasso Sea

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