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HELLO MICROBE MY OLD FRIEND: HOW A DIVERSE MICROBIOME TRAINS THE IMMUNE SYSTEM AGAINST ALLERGIES
Why does the immune system sometimes go haywire and cause allergies? Scientists now think that a healthy immune system needs training early in life by unlikely allies: microbes. How can microbes be our friends in the face of allergies, and why are these disorders getting more common recently?
ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES: YOUR BODY'S HOMELAND SECURITY
How do we survive infections when some types of bacteria can double their population as quickly as a run of a sitcom episode (twenty minutes) while our adaptive immune system takes a few days to produce antibodies and T cells in our defense? What defenses does our body use in the meantime to keep the infection under control?