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Here’s a fun read on that arms race The acquired immune system: a vantage from beneath https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15539148/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.g
by pazimzadeh 3mo ago
Here’s a fun read on that arms race
The acquired immune system: a vantage from beneath
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15539148/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15539148/
Basically saying our immune systems ensure that microbes get ever more devious
However there’s ways that we counter that, like mucus that basically slowly feeds and tames your bacteria. Doesn’t work on viruses though
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 3mo agoEverything I hear is about bacterias though. I wish we found more about viruses.
- bongoman37 3mo agoBacteria is plural, bacterium is singular.
- pazimzadeh 3mo agoviruses and transposons are a major source of creativity in life. the adaptive immune system of jawed vertebrates like us, which defends against viruses, only exists because the RAG transposon inserted itself into the gonads of our fish ancestors 500 million years ago Origin of immunoglobulins and T cell receptors: A candidate gene for invasion by the RAG transposon https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40614193/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40614193/