It takes a village: Mechanism alerts neighbours to amplify immune response

New research reveals a clever strategy that enables a host organism to outsmart an invading bacterium by counteracting its efforts to suppress the innate immune response. The study, published by Cell Press in the November 24th issue of the journal Immunity, describes a mechanism by which an infected cell can quickly alert unsuspecting (and uninfected) neighbouring cells that can join the fight, amplify the immune response and defeat the invader...

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