eli5: How are natural killer cells different from killer T cells?

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I get that they’re different cells, it’s just that everything I read about them is so complex.

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Natural killer cells have an innate knowledge of a wide variety of pathogens, they’re how your body already knows to fight off certain infections at birth. Killer T cells learn about specific pathogens, they’re how your body learns to fight off infections that you had once

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