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Scientists Just Discovered Another Trick Bacteria Use to Avoid The Immune System – ScienceAlert
For their own self-preservation, infectious bacteria often try their best to stay out of the way of the immune system in our bodies – and scientists have found a surreptitious and previously undiscovered way that they do this.
For their own self-preservation, infectious bacteria often try their best to stay out of the way of the immune system in our bodies and scientists have found a surreptitious and previously undiscovered way that they do this.
What happens is that the bacteria release toxins to disarm the mitochondria in immune cells, those tiny organelles that act as the engine rooms of cells. Once the immune cells sense that their mitochondria are inactive, they trigger apoptosis or programmed cell death.
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