A Vaccine That Makes Your Immune System ... Forget?

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Vaccines for covid or the flu teach your immune system to remember a threat so that it responds when that threat shows up. Some researchers want to delete immune memories instead, because those aberrant memories are the cause of autoimmune diseases like MS, Celiac, and Crohn's disease. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Alex Hackman, Ash, Bryan Cloer, charles george, Chris Mackey, Chris Peters, Christoph Schwanke, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Harrison Mills, Jaap Westera, Jason A, Saslow, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jeremy Mattern, Kevin Bealer, Matt Curls, Michelle Dove, Piya Shedden, Rizwan Kassim, Sam Lutfi ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-019-0424-1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-023-01086-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/cmi2015112 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8987166/ https://www.lji.org/news-events/news/post/immune-cells-can-detect-cancer/ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lang

Published 2023-12-22 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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