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Health and wellness
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Discover how the AIRE protein recreates a library of your entire body to eliminate lymphocytes capable of attacking you by mistake.
Health and wellness
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Discovered in 2004, this cellular sacrifice expels white blood cells' own genetic material to trap pathogens before they overwhelm the body.
Health and wellness
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Far from being an expendable organ, it houses a tactical reserve of millions of cells ready to deploy in a vascular crisis.
Biology
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How a hormonal storm of testosterone and cortisol turns this mammal's reproduction into a deadly race of no return.
Health and wellness
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If your immune system discovered the internal composition of your eyeballs, it could attack and destroy them as if they were foreign invaders.