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IndyStar documented Kristy Prosser's journey, beginning just a few weeks after she was diagnosed through the completion of ...

How red blood cells keep making hemoglobin under stress could reshape anemia treatment

Scientists have long been puzzled by how maturing red blood cells manage to produce all the hemoglobin they need to carry ...

Robust flu protection may rely on B cells that are long-lived residents in the lungs

Deep in the lungs, resident memory B cells stand guard against influenza reinfection—but whether they remain there may depend ...
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Immune Amnesia: How the Texas Measles Outbreak Could Promote the Spread of Other Infectious Diseases

The measles virus attacks long-lived immune cells, reducing antibody-mediated protection from other infectious diseases and casting a long shadow of childhood mortality. Many of the nastier measles ...
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Did the Irish invent Chess?

Caoimhin O’Gallchobhair is rom Belfast, he is a digital native, social media alien. He is currently making another game about ...