What are vaccines? Vaccines prepare your immune system to fight certain diseases. Vaccines contain compounds that resemble a disease- causing microorganism. These compounds are not actually harmful and the do not cause disease-like symptoms. When a vaccine is given, the body’s immune system is stimulated and lymphocytes, a type of immune cell, respond by producing antibodies. The production of those antibodies against the compound resembling disease- causing microorganisms is

Many of us dread finding a lump in our skin and hearing those three words come out of our doctor’s mouth: “You have cancer”. It is a scary, but pervasive part of the world we live in. Cancer is usually the result of a mutation in our cells’ DNA that causes it to divide endlessly, forming a tumour. Having more cells or living longer increases the chance of developing one of these harmful mutations. It would make sense, then, that one of the planet’s largest living creatures, t