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Danny Altmann on how T cells fight disease
The Life Scientific
The T-Cells React Like Viruses and Bacteria
The immune system is a really fantastically complex beast and genetically very highly programmed to get us through that. We've sort of endowed these cells and molecules with some sort of sentient intelligence, but it is just really so clever. Let me try you on a metaphor that comes from my colleague Benny, where he describes it like this to students. He says, imagine that the government have decided that they're going to monitor all cars coming into London because they know that the baddies tend to drive the red minis. The red cars are the viruses. So even the most altered and souped-up and pimped-up red mini will still have components that the T-cells will recognize.
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