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"
Tags: immune system, T cells
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