How the Human Immune System Works: Innate vs. Adaptive Immunity
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How the Human Immune System Works: Innate vs. Adaptive Immunity

Corrected by Emir Baycan · on When Notes Fly · 11 July 2026 · View published page ↗

How does the immune system actually recognize and fight infections? Understand innate and adaptive immunity, T cells and B cells, antibodies...

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Their discovery by Charles Janeway, Bruce Beutler, and Jules Hoffmann earned the Nobel Prize in 2011
+Their discovery by Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffmann, building on Charles Janeway's pattern-recognition theory, earned the Nobel Prize in 2011

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Live article body already correctly reflects that only Beutler and Hoffmann were laureates, with Janeway credited for originating the underlying theory rather than sharing the prize. Verified faq and excerpt, no fabrication remaining.

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