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Immunology

June 2024

  • arturo casadevall in a lab at johns hopkins university

    Prof Arturo Casadevall: ‘It is hubris to think a fungal pandemic can’t happen to us’

    Could a fungus trigger a Last of Us-style apocalypse? The author of What If Fungi Win? says despite dangers, the organisms are of great use to science

May 2024

  • James Mowbray

    Other lives
    James Mowbray obituary

  • a composite image of people in hazmat suits, a syringe, a cow and birds flying in the sky

    ‘The issue is when to pull the trigger’: how prepared are we for human bird flu?

February 2024

  • An image of brain scans with a syringe on top of them.

    Is the 100-year old TB vaccine a new weapon against Alzheimer’s?

    Studies suggest the BCG jab discovered a century ago could provide a cheap and effective way of boosting the immune system to protect people from developing the condition
  • Ultraviolet light therapy used to prevent rickets in children, 1938

    ‘It is shameful’: why the return of Victorian-era diseases to the UK alarms health experts

    There has been a surge in cases of scabies and measles – both highly contagious – as well as rickets and scurvy, conditions we thought had been eradicated. Are public health cuts to blame?
  • Katalin Kariko in 1989 Katalin Karikó, senior vice president and head of RNA protein replacement therapies at BioNTech. Breaking Through: My Life in Science by Katalin Karikó

    Breaking Through: My Life in Science by Katalin Karikó review – real-life lessons in chemistry

    This vivid account of the Hungarian biochemist who endured decades of derision before pioneering Pfizer’s Covid vaccine is a tribute to her tenacity and self-belief

December 2023

  • An illustration portraying the rise of humankind, with a sialic acid molecule superimposed on it

    Sickly sweet: how our sugar-coated cells helped humanity turn illness into evolution

    The molecules that cover our cells have interacted over the ages with our environment and the diseases that plague us – and in the process shaped our progress

November 2023

  • Chris Whitty with black rucksack passing police officer and sign that sayss UK Covid-19 Inquiry

    Herd immunity was never UK policy, Chris Whitty tells Covid inquiry

    Chief medical officer for England says ministers caused confusion by even debating the idea

October 2023

  • Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó.

    Scientists whose work enabled mRNA Covid vaccine win medicine Nobel prize

    Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman share £823,000 prize announced by Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm

July 2023

  • Simon Pegg

    Weekend
    Actor Simon Pegg, Marina Hyde on the benevolent Lord Lebedev, and the truth about inflammation – podcast

    Simon Pegg on joining the A-list elite and embracing home life in Blighty; Marina Hyde implores us to ignore Lord Lebedev’s links to the KGB and just focus on his successes; and writer Joel Snape reveals all you need to know about 2023’s hottest health topic: inflammation

June 2023

  • ‘Inflammation, at its core, is a vital part of the body’s immune response.’

    The truth about inflammation: all you need to know about 2023’s hottest health topic, from causes to cures

    Inflammation is the scourge of modern life, judging by all the supplements, workouts and diets that promise to fight it. But what precisely gets inflamed, and why – and is it always a bad thing?
  • Lindy Durant, chief executive of Scancell

    Observer business profile
    ‘Designing a vaccine that covers all cancers is hard’: biotech pioneer Lindy Durrant

    The immunologist who runs Scancell is trialling novel treatments to attack tumours, as well as needle-free Covid jabs

    • Notebook
      It needs more than a pollen forecast to ease the proliferation of allergies

      Tim Adams

    • Britain is ‘recklessly exposed’ to new pandemics, expert warns

    • Apple cider vinegar: the ultimate panacea – or wildly overhyped?

May 2023

  • kiko Iwasaki at the Yale School of Medicine.

    Immunologist Akiko Iwasaki: ‘We are not done with Covid, not even close’

    The Yale professor and long Covid expert on why the virus is causing ongoing illness for so many, and the challenges she faces as a woman of colour in science

April 2023

  • E coli

    Use of antibiotics in farming ‘endangering human immune system’

    Study suggests antimicrobial used to promote livestock growth breeds bacteria more resistant to our natural defences

January 2023

  • Illustration by Klawe Rzeczy showing Covid viruses and ambulances.

    Immunity debt: does it really exist?

    Some claim the rise in winter infections has been caused by the reduction of seasonal bugs during lockdowns. But experts are sceptical about these oversimplified explanations

November 2022

  • A scientist at a microscope

    Scientists reveal new lines of attack to raise cancer survival rate

  • Edward Jenner inoculating a child in 1796.

    Great leaps forward in vaccine history

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