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Zealous Mercenaries
An interview with Habib Zaghouani , Professor, Department of Immunology and MicrobiologyIn a back corner of the University of Missouri’s medical building, a few floors above the hospital and tucked away to the right, Habib Zaghouani watches a cellular war. He has been up there for seven years, with an army of graduate students and a colony of mice, trying to understand why our bodies attack us and how we can make them stop.
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The Memory of an Immune System
From an interview with Habib Zaghouani , Professor, Department of Immunology and MicrobiologyJason Ellis leads the project that examines how a T cell decides whether to live or die after fighting an infection. These memory T cells, the ones that remain, keep the same illness from happening all over again, and vaccines are based on this same principle.
