Word: antibodiesâ
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Outlaws. But immunology was gradually becoming a science. The existence of antibodies???agents produced by the body in response to the challenge of disease-causing organisms?was discovered at the end of the 19th century. In the 1940s, doctors finally recognized that a badly functioning immune system, or the absence of one, can leave the body virtually defenseless against infection from without. But it was not until the early 1950s that Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet, an Australian, theorized that the way the body manages to cope with the enormous range of disease organisms is through its ability to recognize itself...
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