text: Surprise finding reveals how adaptive our immune systems can be – Lyra Nara Blog
  PhD student Megan Ives, Dr Elissa Deenick and Associate Professor Stuart Tangye, from Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research, discovered that the immune systems of people with Hyper IgE Syndrome have much more redundancy, or compensatory capacity, than expected. Specifically, the research team expected patients to be significantly less able to create effective 'killer T cells', the class ofimmune cells that destroy invading microbes and cancers. Their results are published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, now online.