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#157 On Beyond Antibodies (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

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Antibodies and the Receptors on the B Cells

The antibodies which you have seen diagrammed a million times as little y-shaped proteins where the tips of the y are the thing that sticks to the antigen and the tail is what dictates what class they're in. The antibody has a close evolutionary relationship to the receptors that sit on the surface of the b cell so there have to be receptors on the cell itself so that the cell itself knows ah wait it's my time right um? So anyway these are two versions of the variation the evolutionary variations on a theme and the receptors and the antibodies have a relationship but that's probably almost enough to to cap this off for today purpose being really just to get people used to the conversation since i think we

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