#adaptive-immunity

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Medicine
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Protective immune cells in breastfeeding women identified as guard against breast cancer, new research finds

Breastfeeding induces long-lasting CD8 T-cell residency in breast tissue that provides durable adaptive immune protection against breast cancer.
MMA
fromNature
4 months ago

Developmental trajectory and evolutionary origin of thymic mimetic cells - Nature

Somatic diversification of antigen receptor genes required immune system reorganization to prevent autoimmunity.
Early vertebrates may have developed tolerance mechanisms alongside increasing antigen receptor diversity.
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