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• How Vaccines Teach the Immune System Without the Disease
  Vaccination is immunology turned into pedagogy: a lesson about a pathogen delivered without the exam. Here is how the adaptive immune system learns, why adjuvants and boosters exist, and how the different vaccine platforms — from Edward Jenner's cowpox to mRNA — are variations on one idea.
• Antibiotic Resistance: The Quiet War Being Lost One Course at a Time
  Alexander Fleming warned about this in his 1945 Nobel speech. Eighty years on, resistant infections kill well over a million people a year, and the pipeline of new drugs is nearly empty. Here is the actual mechanism of the crisis — and the four places it is being fought.