immunology

3 posts in this topic

• March 28, 2026 6 min read

  Your Gut Has Been Talking to Your Immune System All Along — We Just Found Out How

  A landmark study in Nature Microbiology reveals that 80% of healthy gut bacteria carry molecular syringes once thought to be weapons exclusive to pathogens — and they're using them to tune your immune system.

• March 19, 2026 12 min read

  The Vaccine Technology That Was Almost Abandoned Is Changing Medicine

  Karikó and Weissman spent decades ignored while developing modified mRNA. COVID proved them right. Now personalized cancer vaccines and new RSV shots are showing what this platform can really do.

• May 5, 2025 9 min read

  The 'Death Protein' That Forgets to Kill

  A protein famous for blowing up cells is doing something far stranger in your blood stem cells: slowly sabotaging their mitochondria without ever pulling the trigger on cell death — and it may be the hidden engine of blood aging.