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Similar to humans, plants have an immune system to help defend against parasites and other deleterious infections. The human body is interconnected with cell-to-cell communication to orchestrate an ...

Three days post viral infection CD8 T cells (red) re-arrest with antigen presenting cells (cyan), where they are supplied with IL-2 by CD4 T cells (yellow), which migrate in a stop and go pattern. The ...