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Immune 49: I fell in love with worms with Keke Fairfax

Immune

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The Evolution of Human Immunity

i know very little about worms, but is it the life cycle? Is it the sheer diversity of worms? All the above? Oh, it's everything. So i actually operate my lab under a theory. And so viewing that lens, i see them less as a pathagan and more as microbiota, right? Im, and so they still do some really bad things. I still think bad if you're four years old and infected with sih tyemiasis. But we get a lot of benefits from that longa history of adaptation. Our immune system requires that sort of input in order to function properly.

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