「Haemagglutinin's a decoy,」 says Wayne Marasco, an immunologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston. 「Those globular heads can undergo many mutations without the virus suffering any ill effects.」
Twenty years ago, people would have laughed at the suggestion that gut microbes could influence brain function, says immunologist Sven Pettersson of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
First-time parents, writes Mary Ruebush, an American immunologist and author of 「Why dirt is Good」, frantically try to keep their babies away from dirt.
Research into whether a similar mechanism applies to humans and other mammalian hosts should be conducted, said viral immunologist Skip Virgin at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Long dismissed as 「cannon fodder,」 as one immunologist puts it, the white blood cells known as basophils have been enjoying a Renaissance.
嗜堿性细胞长久以来被当作炮灰而遭到忽略,而如今,如同一名免疫学家所讲,迎来了它的复兴。
First-time parents, writes Mary Ruebush, an American immunologist and author of 「Why dirt is Good」, frantically try to keep their babies away from dirt.