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Immunology is a functional definition describing studies related to host protection mechanisms against pathogens, and is thus in itself a multi-disciplinary science linking topics such as biochemistry, cell biology, microbiology and disease. Here in this editorial page, we select articles that feel most exciting to us to share with you, and hope that you will feel the same.