Pores open the door to death
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 07:00
in Biology & Nature
Our body is almost constantly being threatened by pathogens and cancerous cells that appear out of the blue. But the body puts up a fight: specialised cells in the immune system smuggle small molecules (granzymes) into cancer cells and those body cells that have fallen prey to viruses...
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