Science News

Date:
December 20, 2016

Source:
Georgetown University Medical Center

Summary:
Sunlight, through a mechanism separate than vitamin D production, energizes T cells that play a central role in human immunity, researchers have found. The findings suggest how the skin, the body’s largest organ, stays alert to the many microbes that can nest there.

Read full story: Sunlight offers surprise benefit: It energizes infection fighting T cells

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