Bacterial origins of human cell-autonomous innate immune mechanisms

This delightful Perspective provides an exciting overview of how human innate immunity is based on bacterial systems, pointing to common ancestry, and not to convergent evolution. Wein, T., Sorek, R. Bacterial origins of human cell-autonomous innate immune mechanisms. Nat Rev Immunol 22, 629–638 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41577-022-00705-4 A series of prominent research papers in the past 4 years has […]