![Immune system leaps into action – this is an electron microscope capture of the immune system leaping into action. “A white blood cell (red) wraps itself around a mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of most cases of tuberculosis. Phagocyte, as a white blood cell is known as, comes from the Greek word phagein (to eat), and that’s what the cell does, rendering the infectious cell benign.”
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Immune system leaps into action – this is an electron microscope capture of the immune system leaping into action. “A white blood cell (red) wraps itself around a mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of most cases of tuberculosis. Phagocyte, as a white blood cell is known as, comes from the Greek word phagein (to eat), and that’s what the cell does, rendering the infectious cell benign.”
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November 30, 2009, 12:03pm
