The power of T-cells and how they battle coronavirus

Lauren Harrison, PhD
9 min readAug 1, 2020
Photo by Fusion Medical Animation on Unsplash

A lot of talk has been taking place recently about the vaccines in development to counter SARS-CoV-2, and their potential to act on multiple fronts by stimulating antibody and T-cell responses. Most of us are relatively familiar with the concept of antibodies, but are a lot less familiar with T-cells. So what does a T-cell do? Lets find out…

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Lauren Harrison, PhD

I’m a Molecular Virology PhD graduate . I am passionate about all things virus-related and helping everyone to understand them!