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What are memory cells?
Posted November 16, 2023

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Memory cells are long-lived immune cells or lymphocytes that have the ability to store information about an antigen or stimulus after the first encounter. Lymphocytes help the body’s immune system fight foreign pathogens. After an encounter with a pathogen, some lymphocytes turn into memory cells that remember the pathogen that it encountered.