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Training the trainable cells of the immune system and beyond

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The fourth Innate Immune Memory meeting was held in the historic city of Nijmegen, in the eastern-central part of the Netherlands, to discuss the basic and translational aspects of innate immune memory, popularly known as ‘trained immunity’.

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Fig. 1: Schematic representation of the concept of ‘training immunity’.

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Kar, U.K., Joosten, L.A.B. Training the trainable cells of the immune system and beyond. Nat Immunol 21, 115–119 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-019-0583-y

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