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Page Live Science reports, the bacteria found to be more than a mile below the surface of the Pacific Ocean break the world of health science. These bacteria may have just wiped out one of the longest-held assumptions of immunology.
The bacteria are reportedly very foreign to humans. As a result, our immune cells do not register their existence, making them completely undetectable by the human immune system.
This completely contradicts one of the classic principles of immunology – that the human immune system has evolved to be able to detect every microbe so that it can catch the microbe that is infectious.
“The idea is that the immune system is a generalist, it doesn’t matter if something is a threat or not, it just eliminates it. But nothing has really suppressed that assumption until now,” Jonathan Kagan, an immunologist at Boston Children’s Hospital told Live Science.
To test this, one of the study’s leaders explained, researchers had to find bacteria that were unlikely to have had previous contact with the mammalian immune system. They chose a place deep in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, in the Protected Area of the Phoenix Islands in Kiribati, 1,650 miles southwest of Hawaii.
“This is not just the deep ocean, but the deepest, ancient, remote and protected part of the ocean,” said study co-author Randi Rotjan, a Boston University marine ecologist.
“It is 4,000 meters deep, there are no sedentary mammals, and that is in Equatorial space where there will not even be whales,” said Rotjan, referring to the fact that whales tend to breed in one hemisphere and feed on the other, so they will only cross the equator when migrating.
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