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New trials show cancer immunotherapy can be incredibly effective—and...
Health CAR T continues to show promise for otherwise incurable cancers. Two studies out this week in the New England Journal of Medicine report high success rates for a new type of immunotherapy...
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An exhaustive account of how the flu destroys your body
Health The virus doesn’t cause nearly as much misery as your body’s immune response to it. Unlike most common colds, strains of the influenza virus can cause symptoms all throughout the body. Here’s...
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Tattoos are permanent, but the science behind them just shifted
Science Your body never stops trying to contain the situation. If you ask most people how tattoos work, they’re likely to get it a little bit wrong. But a new study suggests we were all a little off...
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You’re almost certainly using the word 'allergies' wrong
Allergic Reaction No need to sniffle about it, though. The word allergy originated in 1906. In the intervening century, it’s come to mean a million different things to a million different people.
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How to tell if you really have a fever
DIY Feverish or fever-ish? Everyone knows the number 98.6. But although we all think of that as the average human temperature in degrees F, human bodies are all different, which means that 98.6°F…
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What to know about breastfeeding
Health There's a lot of misinformation out there, so we cut right to the science. Despite the fact that we were all babies once, all that knowledge about how and what we ate is all but forgotten. A...
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Human cancers aren't contagious, but dogs and other animals aren't so lucky
Science Don’t worry, these diseases can’t spread to people. Dogs can get one of the more bizarre cancers in the world. The disease spreads from dog to dog, but it's not triggered by a virus, the way...
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How studying chicken butts cracked the inner workings of our immune system
Health A Golden Goose award just recognized how poultry enhanced our understanding of B and T cells. Children were dying, and pediatrician Max Cooper couldn’t understand why. They had plenty of plasma...
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Llamas could save us all from the flu
Health Their blood might hold the key to stopping every flu, every year. Llamas may be large and fluffy, but their antibodies sure aren’t. And that could be a huge advantage when it comes to fighting...
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Half of the people who think they have food allergies actually don't
Health But that doesn’t mean you’re imagining things. Food allergies can be confusing to figure out. Once a food item has wreaked havoc on any part of your body, whether its an itchy rash or a bout of...
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Most of us have viruses sleeping inside us, and spaceflight wakes them up
Space One more thing to worry about in space. Herpes viruses like chicken pox linger long after symptoms cease, and spaceflight might bring them back to life.
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