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  "textContent": "Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have uncovered how chronic inflammation disrupts the immune system's ability to heal the body, offering new insight into diseases associated with inflammation such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and neurological disorders. The study shows that long-lasting inflammation fundamentally alters macrophages, immune cells that both drive inflammation and repair damaged tissue.",
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