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The peanut snack that triggered a fresh approach to allergy prevention

Early oral exposure to some allergenic foods is now seen as a key prevention strategy, but tackling inhalant allergies remains a challenge.
  1. Sarah DeWeerdt

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It’s not often that a snack food helps to shape the course of scientific history. But that’s what happened when Gideon Lack, a paediatric allergist at King’s College London, visited the Sea of Galilee in Israel with some friends in 2003.

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Nature 588, S14-S16 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02782-8

This article is part of Nature Outlook: Allergies, an editorially independent supplement produced with the financial support of third parties. About this content.

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