Supplement: A Balanced Attack :The Scientist [2007-05-01]


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Supplement: A Balanced Attack During the past five to ten years, an evolution of thinking has taken place for scientists involved in autoimmunity research. The foundation of that new vision is this: Autoimmunity, at some level, exists in everyone. The human immune system does not eliminate all the potential cells that can attack the body that made them. Moreover, the immune system does this on purpose, to generate a system