Tags: immune system, T cells
Categories: Comparisons
An example of metaphor in public science discourse:
"[A T cell] goes around sniffing other cells, basically touching them and trying to find out whether they have been altered in some way, particularly if they are carrying inside them a virus or any other kind of pathogen, and if it finds this pathogen or a virus in your body, it is going to go and kill that virus or pathogen"
Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee, Columbia University
Read "Cells are buzzing cities that are balloons with harpoons"
