Oct
15
2010

March of the immune cells

by Liza | 1 comment
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It's Friday, so it's time for a new Science Friday video. Science Friday
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Courtesy Science Friday Today,
"Reporting in the journal Science, Paul Kubes and colleagues filmed immune cells called neutrophils finding their way to a mouse's wounded liver. The researchers wanted to understand how neutrophils find injuries when bacteria aren't around to signal the damage."

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Liza says:

Dang, this is a video almost worthy of, say, JGordon, and neutrophils are, like, the Chuck Norris of the immune system...

posted on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 1:43pm

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