Immune System: Decoding The Language Of Memory Cells

Friday, January 23, 2009 - 10:28 in Health & Medicine

When an infection attacks, the body's immune system sounds the alert, kills the invading germs and remembers the pathogen to protect against contracting the same type of infection again. Exactly how immunological memory develops is a mystery just beginning to be unveiled in an article in the journal Science.

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