Immune system maintains a memory of past infections by priming genes for future encounters

Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 15:35 in Health & Medicine

Our ability to fight off recurrent infections, such as colds or flu, may lie in the 'immunological memory' found in a newly discovered class of gene regulatory elements, according to research.

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