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Category: Immunology

How the Tick Immune System Works

Posted on December 20, 2018

What’s up with Ticks? Ticks transmit more than 10 different human diseases. The most common is Lyme disease. It’s estimated that bites mostly from the blacklegged or deer tick cause […]

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Plant Defense and Disease Resistance!

Posted on June 23, 2017

Plants are weird. Maybe I should be a bit more specific. Plants have weird immune systems. Scientists know a lot about how the plant immune system works, but there is […]

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Can We Cure Autoimmune Diseases?

Posted on September 15, 2016

What do you do when your illness isn’t caused by bacteria or viruses, but is instead caused by your own immune system? Researchers are developing new technologies that could help cure autoimmune diseases.

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Diseases / Immunology One comment

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