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Learn how the body’s earliest immune defenses can stop a common cold before symptoms appear.

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Your chances of catching a cold—and how miserable it feels—may depend more on your body than on the virus itself.

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Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that ...