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immunology
Fact

Allergy

An immune response to a harmless substance. The machinery involved evolved to deal with parasites, the response causes the disease rather than the…

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Inflammation

The body's response to injury or infection, producing redness, heat, swelling and pain. It is protective and necessary, and when it persists without…

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immunology
Fact

Antibodies

Proteins produced by the immune system that bind specifically to a target and mark it for removal. Their variety is generated at random before any…

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biotechnology
Fact

Monoclonal Antibodies

Identical antibodies produced by a single clone of cells, all binding the same target at the same site. They turned the immune system's specificity…

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immunology
Fact

The Immune System

The set of cells, tissues and molecules that defends the body against infection. It operates in two connected layers: a fast general response, and a…

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medicine
Hypothesis

The Inflammatory Hypothesis of Depression

The proposal that inflammation causes depression in some patients. The evidence is better than for the serotonin account it partly replaced, and the…

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immunology
Proven

Clonal Selection

The immune system generates enormous numbers of cells with randomly assembled receptors, and whichever happen to fit an invader are multiplied. It is…

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immunology
Hypothesis

The Old Friends Hypothesis

The proposal that the immune system requires exposure to organisms it co-evolved with in order to develop proper regulation, and that losing those…

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immunology
Proven· Replicated

Immunological Memory

Immunological memory is the reason surviving a disease usually protects against getting it again, and the reason vaccination works at all. It is…

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immunology
Contested

The Hygiene Hypothesis

The hygiene hypothesis is the proposal that reduced exposure to microbes in early childhood leaves the immune system poorly calibrated, and that this…

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immunology
Theory· Scientific

Autoimmunity

Autoimmunity is the immune system attacking the body it belongs to. Around a hundred distinct autoimmune conditions are recognised, together…

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immunology
Theory

Herd Immunity

Herd immunity is the protection an unvaccinated person receives when enough of the people around them are immune that a chain of transmission cannot…

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