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    • Professor Jose Villadangos

    Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, the Bio21 Institute, and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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    Cannibal immune cells could offer new treatment path

    Researchers discover that a type of immune cell can cannibalise the properties of other cells, creating the potential for harnessing them for new therapies and vaccines

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    Understanding the response of our immune system’s powerful army

    Our immune systems can swing from cytokine storm to immune suppression when fighting infection; understanding why could help us tackle the flu and COVID-19

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    Why flu can be fatal

    Patients that become very ill after briefly recovering from a primary infection like flu may have an ‘immunological scar’, and intensive care treatments could be part of the problem

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