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A diet rich in the amino acid arginine might help the immune system fend off cancer and infection. In mice, a high-arginine diet quashed colon tumors and offered protection against the flu and COVID-19, cancer biologist Sohail Tavazoie and colleagues report in Cell. The nutrient appears to ramp up the immune system’s ability to spot danger. It’s far too early to say whether arginine supplements could prevent or even treat these diseases in people, says Tavazoie, of Rockefeller University in New York City. “I don’t want the takeaway to be that everyone should be just consuming arginine all the time,” he says. …