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The human immune system consists of various regiments of specialised cells, that float around in our bodies and patrol the perimeter, to detect the presence of both infectious agents from outside as well as aberrant and damaged cells on the inside. The earliest response to any attack comes from a group of general-purpose defence cells calles macrophages or phagocytes. These aren’t particularly sophisticated, they just go “oh this isn’t right, I better eat it, nom nom nom”, and they are also able to alert more specialised cells, but this takes a bit of time. A schematic of the two prongs of the human immune response looks like this : Continue reading →