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September 25, 2013 01:28 pm PDT
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You can't vaccinate anoctopus
In a piece on octopus farming, Katherine Harmon mentions a fascinating fact — octopuses don't have an adaptive immune system, the handy-dandy network of different immune-response cells that allow us vertebrates to more easily fight off infections our bodies have encountered before.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/q2zdgxyoJro/story01.htm
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