Ultimately, that kind of decision-making gets rejected, as if it were a foreign body.
Queen bees are creatures of circumstance, encircling potential rivals in much the same way as the immune system attacks a foreign body.
"A pregnant woman has to accommodate this foreign body of the growing fetus, so there is an immunological shift that occurs in pregnancy, " she said.
The apparatus reportedly includes members of every US security, foreign policy and intelligence body.
The foreign secretary added that body armour would be provided for civilians who were involved in the protection of others.
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The team, from the National Cancer Institute near Washington DC, say they were able to effectively prime the "sentry cells" which alert the body to foreign attack.
This specificity means that the immune system targets foreign invaders without harming the body's normal cells.
The Foreign Office said the secret intelligence body MI6 had made the settlements after legal advice.
"After a series of votes and statements and incidents we have decided to suspend our working relations with that body, " Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told the Financial Times on Tuesday.
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The EGAT deal was also one being marketed to foreign investors, so it was another body blow to Thailand's shaky image.
Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hatsuhisa Takashima said a body matching the description of Koda was found by U.S. forces between Baghdad and Tikrit.
Many scientists believe that the body's own defences against foreign intruders can be harnessed to battle malignant melanoma.
Normally, T cells travel throughout the body to detect and fight off foreign substances, such as viruses or bacteria.
Auto-immune diseases are caused when the immune system, for some reason, decides that a certain type of the body's own cells are foreign and starts attacking them.
And the transplantation of foreign tissue could provoke an immune response from the body which could reject the new cornea.
Besides winning Indonesia a seat on the United Nations' new human-rights body, Mr Yudhoyono's main foreign-policy achievement so far has been improved relations with the United States.
They found a 13% lower risk of rejection - where the body recognises the new heart as "foreign" and attacks it - in matched transplants over the first year.
The body produces an inflammatory reaction in response to foreign invaders, such as pollutants.
Meanwhile, the Foreign Office has confirmed it will help to return the body of Mr Karim to northern Iraq.
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Knox was 20 and Kercher was 21 years old, studying at Perugia's university for foreign students, when Kercher's semi-naked body was found in the house they shared.
Autoimmune diseases are a family of debilitating illnesses caused when the body can no longer distinguish between itself and foreign entities, and so turns on its own tissues.
In 2005 the trade body ruled that the law unfairly discriminated against foreign companies despite the US saying that it never intended its commitments to the WTO to mean that it would allow the practice.
Nevertheless, members of the Committee for Foreign Investment in the U.S., an interagency body chaired by the Treasury Department, indicated they would recommend that President George W. Bush block the deal, say people briefed by members.
Foreign journalists taken to the area late in the afternoon saw one body that had been pulled from the rubble.
In the statement, the foreign ministry drew attention to the lack of medicines found in his body, even though the adoptive parents said they had been treating him with "a strong psychotropic medication".
Type I diabetes is thought to be an "autoimmune" disease in which the body's own immune system - which is meant to fight foreign threats like bacteria - turns on the cells in a gland called the pancreas.
Another theory is that the initial illness may have created an autoimmune reaction, causing the body's immune system to attack normal cells as if they were foreign substances.
Kazan was not handsome: he had a scrawny body, a long nose, and a craggy face that marked him as foreign.
The north German city has also largely capitulated to foreign firms: its narrow streets host numerous international brands such as McDonald's and Body Shop.
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In the absence of foreign antigens, a juiced-up immune system sometimes can't stop attacking its own body.
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