Neuroscience
The Seventh Sense
Long thought to be divorced from the brain, the immune system turns out to be intimately involved in its functioning
Jonathan Kipnis is a professor and director of the Center for Brain Immunology and Glia at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. His research focuses on interactions between the nervous and immune systems. Credit: Nick Higgins
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