For a long time, researchers have worked to understand the immune reactions that take place in the human body during various illnesses, such as cancer and inflammatory disorders. Emma Teixeiro, an associate professor in the MU School of Medicine, and her group recently examined how immunological memory, which the body’s immune system retains after an infection or vaccination and helps prevent reinfection, gets generated and maintained, as well as the role inflammation plays in forming that immunological memory.
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