Multicellular creatures can be battlegrounds for competing populations of cells. Claire Ainsworth learns how this way of looking at an individual is feeding into immunology and cancer biology.
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Ainsworth, C. The story of i. Nature 440, 730–733 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/440730a
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