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‘Invisible’ Deep-Sea Bacteria Cause Researchers to Rethink Human Immune Systems Image: Schmidt Ocean Institute Researchers have found microbes in the deep sea that are completely invisible to the human immune system, a somewhat unnerving discovery that suggests our bodies’ seemingly universal ability to recognize bacteria isn’t so all-inclusive. Advertisement The interdisciplinary team’s research was published last week in the journal Science Immunology. Their fundamental conclusion is that the way our mammalian immune systems sniff out trouble—the rules and patterns we follow to ...
Scientists from Boston University, Harvard Medical School and others find new microbes in the deep sea that cannot be detected by human immune cells.
Date Time Deep Ocean Reveals Surprising Discovery about Immunity In the largest and deepest marine protected area in the world, a team of ocean experts peered over 3,000 meters below the surface to find new types of microbial organisms that people would have never encountered before. These microbes-types of bacteria-could now open up doors to new ways of understanding how the immune system responds to completely foreign invaders. A collaborative study between the Rotjan Marine Ecology Lab at Boston University, the Kagan Lab at the Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, the gove...