immunity

All stories in immunity

• Do you still need a vaccine if you’ve already had COVID-19?

  If we are ever to return to some semblance of normality, then the world’s population needs to be immune to SARS-CoV-2, ...

  • The Conversation

• COVID-19 antibodies may fade faster in men than women

  In the global effort to overcome COVID-19, much scientific and medical attention has focused on the ability of our immune ...

  • The Conversation

• COVID-19 will probably become endemic – here's what that means

  We can’t say with any certainty what the future of COVID-19 is. But based on our experience with other infections, there ...

  • The Conversation

• Could biometric immunity passports get the UK back to work?

  The CEO of Onfido, who is in talks with the UK government, says its biometric immunity passports can be adjusted as new coronavirus ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• How CRISPR is tackling the troubling immune response that's plagued gene therapy until now

  One of the major challenges facing gene therapy — a way to treat disease by replacing a patient’s defective genes with ...

  • The Conversation

• Russia published the results of its COVID-19 vaccine — and they don’t live up to the hype

  President Vladimir Putin recently announced that a team of Russian scientists had developed a COVID-19 vaccine and that it ...

  • The Conversation

• Are you safe from COVID-19 if you’ve had the common cold?

  An article in Science recently generated a lot of interest by providing a possible explanation of why COVID-19 can be deadly ...

  • The Conversation

• Researchers are using these mathematical models to predict the spread of coronavirus

  Disease has afflicted humans ever since there have been humans. Malaria and tuberculosis are thought to have ravaged Ancient ...

  • The Conversation

• Here's how body clock cycles affect our immune system

  All life on Earth has evolved to cope with a rotating planet which results in the predictable transition between day and ...

  • The Conversation