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    • Professor Axel Kallies

    Laboratory Head, Immunology and Viral Infectious Diseases, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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    Health & Medicine

    How severe viral infections overwhelm immune cells

    Researchers have uncovered new mechanisms behind how severe viral infections – like HIV and COVID-19 – as well as cancers can exhaust our immune systems

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    Health & Medicine

    Finding the sex factor in immunity

    Researchers investigating why men are more prone to obesity and metabolic diseases have discovered the clearest mechanism yet for how the female and male immune systems operate differently

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    Health & Medicine

    What malaria can tell us about ‘switching off’ diseases like HIV

    New research exploring our body’s inflammation response to malaria could open up new avenues for treating chronic viral infections and autoimmune diseases like HIV

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