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Researchers hit ‘major milestone’ in mapping cells of the human body - Experts have profiled more than 100 million cells from more than 10,000 people across the world.

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occur throughout the human body Illustration of a human cancer cell Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine Back in 2014, a woman with ...

During infections, the immune system needs to distinguish foreign antigens that are expressed by invading bacteria and viruses from self-antigens that are expressed by cells of the body.