Cells of the adaptive immune system hold a grudge: on re-encountering a pathogen, they show a robust protective response. It seems that natural killer cells of the innate immune system might also have this ability.
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Ugolini, S., Vivier, E. Natural killer cells remember. Nature 457, 544–545 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/457544a
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