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A thick skin: How a very exposed organ fights disease
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A thick skin: How a very exposed organ fights disease

by Madeline McCurry-Schmidt, La Jolla Institute for Immunology Credit: Patricia Pauchnick, for La Jolla Institute for Immunology Humans are just so naked. Where many creatures have scales or spines—or even a shell—humans have a soft, sweaty, stretchy layer of skin standing between the world and our internal organs. Thank goodness the skin also has an army...