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A fascinating everyday arms race I had no idea was playing out around me.

• pazimzadeh 2mo ago
  Here’s a fun read on that arms race The acquired immune system: a vantage from beneath https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15539148/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15539148/ Basically saying our immune systems ensure that microbes get ever more devious However there’s ways that we counter that, like mucus that basically slowly feeds and tames your bacteria. Doesn’t work on viruses though
  • Fire-Dragon-DoL 2mo ago
    Everything I hear is about bacterias though. I wish we found more about viruses.
    • bongoman37 2mo ago
      Bacteria is plural, bacterium is singular.
    • pazimzadeh 2mo ago
      viruses and transposons are a major source of creativity in life. the adaptive immune system of jawed vertebrates like us, which defends against viruses, only exists because the RAG transposon inserted itself into the gonads of our fish ancestors 500 million years ago Origin of immunoglobulins and T cell receptors: A candidate gene for invasion by the RAG transposon https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40614193/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40614193/