Life Sciences: Dangerous bodyguards

29/09/2009
Life Sciences: Dangerous bodyguards

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Episode Synopsis

One of the most important tasks of the immune system is to identify what is foreign and what is self. If the body starts to attack its own cells or tissues instead of pathogens, then the result could be a dangerous autoimmune disease. Immunologists Professor Ludger Klein, Professor Thomas Brocker and PD Dr. David Vöhringer have detected new mechanisms that prevent the immune defenses from going off the rails.