Wide gap in immune responses of people exposed to the flu

Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 19:31 in Health & Medicine

Why do some folks who take every precaution still get the flu, while others never even get the sniffles? It comes down to a person's immune system response to the flu virus, according to new research. In one of the first known studies of its kind, researchers used genomics to begin to unravel what in our complex genomic data accounts for why some get sick while others don't.

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