Major Immune System Branch Has Hidden Ability To Learn
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 09:29
in Biology & Nature
Half of the immune system has a hidden talent, researchers have discovered. They found the innate immune system, long recognized as a specialist in rapidly and aggressively combating invaders, has cells that can learn from experience and fight better when called into battle a second time. Scientists previously thought any such ability was limited to the immune system's other major branch, the adaptive immune system.