The arms race between the human immune system and gonorrhea might have had the useful side effect of promoting healthy brain tissue later in life.
– did not have this version of immune receptors coded into their genomes. Something drove humans to develop this special immune receptor early in our history as a species, the researchers said.that try to disguise themselves by dressing in the same sugar coating as human cells, which fools patrolling immune cells into thinking the bacteria are harmless.got very good at tricking the human immune system into thinking it was just another human cell.
Getting rid of gonorrhea is useful for the survival of the species because this disease can mess with human reproduction. Once evolved, this immune receptor was probably co-oped by brain immune cells, called microglia, for a different purpose: protection against aging, the researchers suggest.
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