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DNA mirrored (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How mirror life poses existential risks

Carlyn Zwarenstein
A woman taking medicine in her room at home (Getty Images/Kayoko Hayashi)

Is zinc a placebo for colds?

Nicole Karlis
Assortment of junk foods (Getty Images/carlosgaw)

How do UPFs affect the immune system?

Samuel J. White, Philippe B. Wilson - The Conversation
Woman holding tablet showing pregnancy illustration (Getty Images/Klaus Vedfelt)

Bodies "remember" prior pregnancy: study

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Doctor helping patient use their inhaler (Getty Images/Terry Vine)

Why are autoimmune diseases so common?

Nicole Karlis
Spring blossom pollen (Getty Images/mammuth)

Why are allergies so bad this spring?

Nicole Karlis
Adult woman lying in bed with dog (Getty Images/The Good Brigade)

How loneliness gets in your cells

Shilpa Ravella
Empty plate, cutlery, orange juice and salt and pepper shaker table setting (Getty Images/Arx0nt)

How diet can boost your immune system

Samuel J. White, Philippe B. Wilson - The Conversation
Scientist looking at blood sample (Getty Images/Thana Prasongsin)

No, COVID is not “airborne AIDS”

Troy Farah
Woman wearing a surgical mask as crowd of people walk past her in blur motion (Getty Images/nycshooter)

The forgotten immunocompromised

Lindsay Karp
(Shutterstock/DedMityay)

Alzheimer's may not be a brain disease

Donald Weaver - The Conversation
A man displays a piece of microneedle patch (SAM YEH/AFP via Getty Images)

A "next-gen" COVID vaccine is in tests

Nicole Karlis
A young woman receives her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine (Alberto Ortega/Europa Press via Getty Images)

The J&J vaccine's side effects explained

Matthew Rozsa
Coronavirus and blood cells (Getty Images)

Mast cells and the mystery of long COVID

Temma Ehrenfeld - Undark
Coronavirus and blood cells (Getty Images)

How COVID deranges the immune system

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
A health care worker injects the a syringe of the phase 3 vaccine trial, to a volunteer at the Ankara University Ibni Sina Hospital in Ankara, Turkey on October 27, 2020. This vaccine candidate developed against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by the U.S. Pfizer and German BioNTech company. (Dogukan Keskinkilic/Anadolu Agency via Getty Image)

Vaccine side effects are good, actually

Matthew Woodruff - The Conversation
Cleaning up: On August 31, 2018, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) announced that the United States Air Force has started up an additional granular activated carbon filtration system to capture historic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination caused by the use of firefighting foam at the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base near Oscoda. (Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy)

PFAS pollution may make COVID worse

Anna Robuck - Massive Science
A member of the medical staff comforts a patient infected by the novel coronavirus (PIERO CRUCIATTI/AFP/Getty Images)

COVID-19's "cytokine storm," explained

Keith A. Spencer
A man and a woman go for a walk with their two Border Collies (Mohssen Assanimoghaddam/Getty Images)

"It's a different kind of Saturday"

Matt Richtel
(Getty/from_my_point_of_view)

Food allergies are a grownup problem now

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Narcolepsy from your immune system?

Quinn Eastman
Tasuku Honjo; James P. Allison (Wikimedia/AP/Richard Drew,)

New cancer treatments warranted a Nobel

Sheena Cruickshank - The Conversation
(Janice Haney Carr/CDC/Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia via AP) (AP)

Estrogen effect on autoimmune disorders

Sayantan Chakraborty
(Getty/ChrisChrisW)

The great gut flora war

Lina Nertby Aurell, Mia Clase
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