Credit Erik Karits via Unsplash Monash University-led research is using ticks to help unlock better ways to fight inflammation, which causes considerable suffering in people globally. The Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute -led team has 'hijacked' an anti-inflammatory mechanism used by ticks to block the activity of proteins important in human inflammatory diseases. Chronic inflammatory diseases like atherosclerosis, pulmonary fibrosis, rheumatoid arthritis and cancers cause much suffering worldwide.

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