How cells die determines whether immune system mounts response

Monday, July 21, 2008 - 09:07 in Health & Medicine

Every moment we live, cells in our bodies are dying. One type of cell death activates an immune response while another type doesn't. Now researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis have figured out how some dying cells signal the immune system...

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