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Discover how the AIRE protein recreates a library of your entire body to eliminate lymphocytes capable of attacking you by mistake.
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If your immune system discovered the internal composition of your eyeballs, it could attack and destroy them as if they were foreign invaders.
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Located behind the breastbone, this gland subjects T cells to an unforgiving biological screening: only those that do not attack the body itself survive the exam.