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225: The Science of Tuberculosis

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The Basics of the Immune System

There are two main ways that our immune system deals with stuff. The first is to lock onto things on the exterior, which was if you're inside one of my cells, I can't lock onto something because you're inside my cell. And then we have these other cells called macrophages and they do what phage means: No means to eat. So a macrophage will come along and it kind of like a Pacman situation, right? If we're going to go else, there'll be sort of something that your body doesn't want to be in there. It's resistant to macrophages is the issue there. There is another state, there's a stain that

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