Our immune system has a number of ways of killing bacteria: eating it, starving it and punching a hole in it. This scientific animation is about a "holepunching" machine, known as the Membrane Attack Complex (MAC), which our immune system uses to punch and destroy bacteria entering the blood vessels.



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