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How pollution and the microbiome interact with Tregs, the immune system regulators whose discovery was honored with the Nobel Prize

  • Written by Prakash Nagarkatti, Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina
How pollution and the microbiome interact with Tregs, the immune system regulators whose discovery was honored with the Nobel PrizeTreg cells have been thrust into the limelight thanks to the Nobel Prize-winning work of a team of researchers from the U.S. and Japan.jarun011/iStock via Getty Images Plus

A special group of immune cells known as regulatory T cells, or Tregs for short, became an overnight sensation when a trio of U.S. and Japanese scientists won the Nobel Prize in...

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