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Immune system

What is inflammation? Two immunologists explain how the body responds to everything from stings to vaccination and why it sometimes goes wrong

Magazine

What is inflammation? Two immunologists explain how the body responds to everything from stings to vaccination and why it sometimes goes wrong

By Prakash Nagarkatti and Mitzi Nagarkatti

Global Forum on TB Vaccines: The good news and the bad news

South Africa

Global Forum on TB Vaccines: The good news and the bad news

By Adele Baleta for Spotlight

US, Japanese pair win Nobel Medicine Prize for cancer therapy

World

US, Japanese pair win Nobel Medicine Prize for cancer therapy

By AFP

Crispr vs HIV: Pitting the weaponry of a bacterium against the cunning of a virus

Maverick Life

Crispr vs HIV: Pitting the weaponry of a bacterium against the cunning of a virus

By Andrea Teagle

Science: Gene editing tool takes laboratories by storm - but there are ethical concerns

Maverick Life

Science: Gene editing tool takes laboratories by storm - but there are ethical concerns

By Marelise Van Der Merwe