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How microbes train our immune system

Gut bacteria coax T cells to see them as friends.

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  1. Lathrop, S. K. et al. Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature10434 (2011).

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Katsnelson, A. How microbes train our immune system. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.550

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