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Microchimerism – What’s in a word?

  Mike Magee According to some estimates, a medical student learns upwards of 15,000 new words during the four years of training. But the scope of the language challenge extends well beyond these tightly conscripted years since discoveries, and accompanying language to describe and label those new findings, accumulate throughout the entire span on one’s […]

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Is “Self vs. Non-Self” in Immunology as iron-clad as we thought?

Mike Magee In 1872, English mathematician and sometimes poet, Augustus de Morgan, wrote this catching rhyme: “Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ‘em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.” This truism about competition among species for access to nutrition and reproduction could have come in handy to […]

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