Investor Update: Australian researchers discover immune system ?kill switch? - Austrade

Australian researchers have discovered an immune system kill switch' that could be a target for chemotherapy and infection recovery. Researchers said that the immune system kill switch' is triggered when internal immune cell signals that protect the body from infection go haywire. Dr Seth Masters said that NLRP1 is part of a family of immune receptors that acts as a protective mechanism, instructing immune and blood stem cells to die because it has sensed' infection or severe stress-related damage.

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