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Iain Cheeseman and colleagues reveal the underappreciated role of single genes producing multiple proteins in atypical ...

Temperature is a key physiological factor that determines the speed of immune reactions. While this may seem obvious, it has remained largely unexplored at the single-cell level-until now.