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“If conceived as an alternative to humans,” the pontiff said, the technology “can gravely violate their infinite dignity and neutralize their fundamental responsibilities.”

NETs form when neutrophils release their DNA through a process called NETosis, creating thread-like structures filled with harmful enzymes that can quickly trap and neutralize invading microbes.

“Whether today’s move was pre-emptive and designed to neutralize an activist attack is a question best put to Folliard and his advisors,” added Bilson.

"When bound to girdin, it detects invading pathogens and maintains gut immune balance by swiftly neutralizing them. Without this partnership, the NOD2 surveillance system collapses."

Yet it hasn’t been able to neutralize one, whose unrelenting resistance has made him, in the eyes of supporters, the last militant leader still fighting in the Middle East.