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Could You Ever Be Immune To EVERY Disease?
Join Joe Hanson as he explores curiosity and illuminates the science behind… well, everything.
Could You Ever Be Immune To EVERY Disease?
Season 6 Episode 6 | 6m 13s | CC
Our bodies hold many levels of immune defense.Physical barriers like skin, the innate immune system, and our body’s most powerful defender, the adaptive immune system. Millions of B cells and T cells and antibodies are constantly on patrol for germs and antigen invaders. As scientists learn more about how this system works and how to engineer it, could we ever actually be immune to everything?
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