Naut's Tidbits & Snippets for Monday, April 23, 2012

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Monday, April 23, 2012

And in Dublin: Got Allergies? Get some Hookworms…

Most food allergies result from an immune response to a protein. In 2004 a team at Trinity College, Dublin, tried to counter that reaction by injecting mice with parasites, giving the animals the sort of threat they evolved to fight, thud distracting them from the food proteins. The experiment... Sign in to see full entry.

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