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MALTA?Coming down with the flu?and slowly recovering from it?might seem straight forward enough. But a lot of what happens in your body on a molecular level during the time between initial infection and full recovery is still somewhat of a mystery to scientists.
An improved capacity to track the course of an influenza infection could not only help in the development of more effective vaccines to protect against a much broader range of strains than just a few passing seasonal ones as are now included in annual flu shots, but it could also bring new understanding of the immune system as a whole.
We still don?t know ?what maintains the size of the immune system? and keeps it in homeostasis, Peter Doherty, of the University of Melbourne?s Department of Microbiology and Immunology, said September 11, at the European Scientific Working Group on Influenza (ESWI) fourth annual conference in Malta. Among those who spend their careers studying viruses?and how to fend them off??it?s kind of like the big bear in the room,? said Doherty, who shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996 for his earlier work on how the immune system recognizes viruses.
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http://blogs.scientificamerican.com...ds-light-on-holes-in-immune-system-knowledge/
An improved capacity to track the course of an influenza infection could not only help in the development of more effective vaccines to protect against a much broader range of strains than just a few passing seasonal ones as are now included in annual flu shots, but it could also bring new understanding of the immune system as a whole.
We still don?t know ?what maintains the size of the immune system? and keeps it in homeostasis, Peter Doherty, of the University of Melbourne?s Department of Microbiology and Immunology, said September 11, at the European Scientific Working Group on Influenza (ESWI) fourth annual conference in Malta. Among those who spend their careers studying viruses?and how to fend them off??it?s kind of like the big bear in the room,? said Doherty, who shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996 for his earlier work on how the immune system recognizes viruses.
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http://blogs.scientificamerican.com...ds-light-on-holes-in-immune-system-knowledge/