
Inside the immune system: Bad robots and friendly monsters
Brains On! Science podcast for kids
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I Traversed the Passageway of Mucus and Now Am Ready to Invade
Our bodies have helpful microbes living inside and on us. These are bacteria and viruses that aren't harmful to us, and in fact can actually be helpful and keep the bad bacteria and viruses out. It's like having friendly robots hanging out near the entrances, crowding out the bad robots. In our city here, the pathagins are bad robats, and our night imen selves are those friendly monsters i mentioned. So it's time for mobots verses monsterwe friendly monsters with a killer system.
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