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The human immune system is the most complex biological system we know, after the human brain. What happens when your body is invaded and your first lines of defenses are engaged in a fight for life and death?
Many cannot produce enough infection-fighting cells to fend off the coronavirus. But researchers are testing one therapy that may help: monoclonal antibodies.
New research found ‘autoantibodies’ similar to those in lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients. But patients may also benefit from treatments for those autoimmune diseases.
Three articles. Researchers are finding that children of all ages become infected and spread the virus to others but that children do respond differently immunologically to this virus, and it seems to be protecting the kids.
Which is too bad because we really need to understand how the immune system reacts to the coronavirus.
Blood type is dictated by genes that determine which kinds of molecules, called oligosaccharides, are found on the surface of your red blood cells. Norovirus and a few other viruses use these oligosaccharides to grab onto and infect intestinal cells
While you feel miserable when you have an influenza infection, you can rest assured that it is because your body is fighting hard. It’s combating the spread of the virus in your lungs and killing infected cells.
When it comes to our immune response, genetics takes a back seat to pathogens.
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