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Publisher
Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Around Christmas of 1882, while peering through a microscope at starfish larvae in which he had inserted tiny thorns, Russian zoologist Elie Metchnikoff had a brilliant insight: what if the mobile cells he saw gathering around the thorns were nothing but a healing force in action? Metchnikoff{u2019}s daring theory of immunity{u2014}that voracious cells he called phagocytes formed the first line of defense against invading bacteria{u2014}would eventually...
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