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From The November-December 2003 Issue

Published in the November-December 2003 print issue in the John Harvard's Journal section.

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How Measles Causes Immune Amnesia

Michael Mina explains “immune amnesia” and the lasting impact of infection.

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Attack U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement directive

Five Questions with Javier Ortega-Hernández

A professor of evolutionary biology on what shaped life more than 500 million years ago

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