Found: The dial in the brain that controls the immune system

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Scientists identify the brain cells that regulate inflammation, and pinpoint how they keep tabs on the immune response.

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  1. Giorgia Guglielmi
    1. Giorgia Guglielmi is a science journalist in Basel, Switzerland.

Scientists have long known that the brain plays a part in the immune system — but how it does so has been a mystery. Now, scientists have identified cells in the brainstem that sense immune cues from the periphery of the body and act as master regulators of the body’s inflammatory response.

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