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The Story

Tak Mak is a very imaginative fellow. When asked to describe his work as an immunologist, instead of telling a story about himself he came up with the following tale concerning the life of an imaginary T-cell.

Tommy T-Cell is a biodetective.

His job is to patrol the human body, investigating suspicious characters. Think of the cells in the human body as shops on a city street. Billions and trillions of police detectives like Tommy T-Cell are driving by all the time, looking in all the shop windows for something unusual going on.

Each T-cell is trained to find one — and only one — type of criminal.

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There are several different kinds of T-cells. Tommy is known as a helper T-cell, part of the body’s immune system, but you can think of him as a cop.

As Tommy cruises through blood and tissue he meets a macrophage, a specialized cell that’s a combination reconnaissance and disposal unit in the body.

Macrophages