Inside a worm lab at MIT
Clip: 1/22/2014 | 4m 57s
A look inside a worm laboratory at MIT, where scientists aim to understand immune systems.
The graduate students in Dennis Kim's lab at MIT spend their days raising worms. Then they infect them with deadly bacteria and watch them fight for their lives. Their goal is to understand how the immune system triggers its defenses to fight diseases.
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Inside a worm lab at MIT
Clip: 1/22/2014 | 4m 57s
The graduate students in Dennis Kim's lab at MIT spend their days raising worms. Then they infect them with deadly bacteria and watch them fight for their lives. Their goal is to understand how the immune system triggers its defenses to fight diseases.
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