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Danny Altmann on how T cells fight disease

The Life Scientific

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Using Words Like, You Know, It's Warfare

I could still, you know, close my eyes and see an angry activated T-cell. It's a kind of bulging teardrop and it's sitting there ready to do all its stuff. I'm apart from being good on HLA and T-cells, I'm pretty good on Tolstol and Dostoevsky and Dickens and Hardy and Trollope. So whatever I lack in numbers, I possibly make up for in words. And one thing I like about words is the idea that sometimes I think you just have to ask a good question, do a good experiment and tell a good story about what you found that's new.

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