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Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation: Unraveling and Applying the Capacities of the Immune System
Pages 14-17

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... Illustration of CAR (chimeric antigen receptor) T cell immunotherapy, a process that is being developed to treat cancer: T cells (one at center)
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... For misfolding may play a larger role in human many years, scientists were unsure whether the diseases than previously suspected. NAS member George genetic diversity required to produce millions of Davis Snell shared the antibodies was generated during evolution (and Illustration of prion 1980 Nobel Prize for spread: A normal form of therefore is carried in sperm and egg cells)
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... TLRs are a class of Two Types of Immune Help proteins that are primarily produced by white blood A balanced immune response requires the proper cells and recognize white blood cells and recognize regulation of immune cells known as helper molecules broadly shared by pathogenic microbes. T cells.
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... However, that display the protein they were engineered T cells from a person with cancer are removed, in 2006, a subset of NK cells was found to to recognize. Treatment using these engineered genetically altered to target tumor cells, and then possess memories of past exposure to a threat, immune cells delayed cancer progression and transferred back into the person.
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