Two companion papers explain immune ‘exhaustion’ - and how we might prevent it

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Source: Hackensack Meridian Health

Chronic and viral infections can literally exhaust certain key cells in the immune system from a constant barrage of attacks. But a new pair of papers has now pointed a way to understand how this exhaustion happens at a molecular level.

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