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'Nurse cells' make life and death decisions for infection-fighting cells
05-29-2007 · EurekAlert!"Nurse cells" play an important role in deciding which developing infection-fighting cells, called T cells, live and which die, according to research funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and reported in the June issue of the journal Experimental Biology and Medicine.
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