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Allergy

It can now be understood as immunity gone wrong. Why hay-fever victims make antibody to a normally innocuous pollen is not clear, but the cellular and biochemical agents of the response are known

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 247 Issue 2This article was originally published with the title “Allergy” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 247 No. 2 (), p. 86
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0882-86