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What have we learnt from Covid?

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What's Next for the Immune System?

The latest cancer medicines all came from basic curiosity-driven research. HIV drugs started in the early 20th century with a guy called Peyton Rouse trying to see if he could transmit cancers between different chickens. So that laid the foundations for understanding retroviruses and then understanding HIV, and that's why we had functional cures for HIV within 20 years of discovery of the virus.

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