Dan Seitz

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Then there are the B cells. They originate in the bone marrow. These cells were what Dr. Miller called “antibody-forming precursor cells”—they were ready to be armed in some way to fight disease. But it appeared that B cells required some instruction, some additional information to act. That information seemed to come from the T cells, which were instructing other cells in how to attack.
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
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