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Think back on the last time you came down with something. First you were sick, acutely ill. But then, days or hours later, you were no longer ill, but also not well, stuck in the grey zone of recovery.
That's the stage of illness that most interests David Schneider, PhD, an associate professor of microbiology and immunology, and those in his lab. As Schneider explains in the video above:
It looks like recovery is a different sort of process than getting sick. So we're trying to take this apart first by working with fruit flies, then by working with mice and eventually by working with people.
Our goal is to be able to take someone suffering from an infection and really help them improve their recovery.
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Previously: Immune cell linked to surgery recovery time, Stanford scientists find, Stanford team develops a method to prevent the viral infection that causes dengue fever and Shrugging off bugs: there's more to beating infections than just fighting them
