the superhero in the vagina

"'All kinds of things—lubricants, semen, bacteria, feces—get put into the vagina,' says Forney. 'But most women are healthy most of the time.' He and other microbiologists would like to discover the keys to that resilience, which probably relies on interactions between the vaginal wall cells, the microbes living there, and the woman’s immune system."
Read full article by Kendall Power (The Atlantic)