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Does it seem like every year you get sick the MINUTE you start your vacation? Anna explores why.
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Study on the effects of sleep on health:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2629403

Study on the effects of stress on medical students:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.322.7375&rep=rep1&type=pdf

PopSci article on how sneezes travel through airplanes:
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/how-sneeze-particles-travel-inside-airplane

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(Via Wikimedia Commons) Video S1 from Rak G, Mace E, Banerjee P, Svitkina T, Orange J (2011). "Natural Killer Cell Lytic Granule Secretion Occurs through a Pervasive Actin Network at the Immune
Synapse". PLOS Biology. DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001151. PMID 21931536. PMC: 3172191.
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