GRAY CELLS: ARE WE TOO CLEAN?
More and more people, especially children, suffer from allergies and asthma. Due to our overly hygienic way of life, we often hear. How does our Western lifestyle put our immune system into overdrive? Should we let our children eat and play 'dirtier' again? And do the scientists have anything else in the pipeline?
Reinout Verbeke (Eos) speaks with allergy specialist Jan Ceuppens (KU Leuven) and bio -computer scientist Jeroen Raes (VUB).