Next time you beat a virus, thank your microbial ancestors

ScienceDaily
Aug 21, 2024, 4:46 pm77 pts
When you get infected with a virus, some of the first weapons your body deploys to fight it were passed down to us from our microbial ancestors billions of years ago. According to new research, two key elements of our innate immune system came from a group of microbes called Asgard archaea.

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